Excerpt from Emily: A Moral Tale Including Letters From a Father to His Daughter Upon the Important Subjects, Vol. 2 of 2 You will; fometimes meet with thota who have a peculiarly artful manner of relating a ftory, with a View of faving themfelves from being thought cenforious. They preface their narratives with aflhring you, ' they only te late what they have heard; but they will not venture to pledge themfelves for the truth of what they are going to tay. Then they proceed by their tone of voice, innuendoes, and laughing, to thow you, as plainly as pottible, their opinion of the cafe, and what impreflion they are anxious to make upon your mind: There is too a mode of contra dieting a frory, which may ferve to confirm it - a mode well known, and fucceflsfully praetifed by many a Mrs. Candor you may chance to meet with. She afi'erts, indeed, the does not credit a word of the affair; but the may fpeak in tuch an ironical manner, as to conxince the whole company the withes every t'yllable of it to be believed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.