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BPB.769.007
27 Mar 1769:11,12,13,21 (606)
From Parker's New-York Gazette.
The Fatal Indifference. Or the interesting history of Mrs.
Matilda Markham. Printed from her own manuscript.
I was the only daughter of a gentleman. . . no care was
omitted to give his favourite Matilda a finished education.
. . made such a mistress of the harpsichord before I
attained my fourteen year, that I was considered by the
conniseurs on this instrument, as a kind of musical miracle.
And to all those accomplishments, that I sung with some
voice and much taste, danced with remarkable grace, and
possessed a person which was the incessant object of general
adulation. . .
He fancied that the knowledge of a language or two would
necessarily give me good sense, and believed the turn of my
disposition must be right because I sung prettily, and made
a figure at my harpsicord. . .
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