was never uttered in the presence of Amelia, she began to perceive its influence, and suffered the painful dread of proving a perpetual burden to those friends, by whose generosity she subsisted; she wished, a thou|sand times, that her affectionate aunt, in|stead of cultivating her mind with such dangerous refinement, had placed her in any station of life where she might have maintained herself by her own manual la|bour: she sometimes entertained a project of making some attempt for this purpose; and she once thought of changing her name, and of trying to support herself as an actress on one of the public theatres; but this idea, which her honest pride had sug|gested, was effectually suppressed by her modesty; and she continued to waste the most precious time of her youth, under the mortification of perpetually wishing to change her mode of life, and of not know|ing how to effect it. Almost two years had now elapsed since the death of her aunt, and, without any prospect of marriage, she 0