Or rather, as you are a friend, be loving.
Yours gratefully and faithfully, MATILDA CARBURY.
After all how few women there are who can raise themselves above the quagmire of what we call love, and make themselves anything but playthings for men.

Of almost all these royal and luxurious sinners it was the chief sin that in some phase of their lives they consented to be playthings without being wives.

I have striven so hard to be proper; but when girls read everything, why should not an old woman write anything?
This letter was addressed to Nicholas Broune, Esq., the editor of the 'Morning Breakfast Table,' a daily newspaper of high character; and, as it was the longest, so was it considered to be the most important of the three.

Mr Broune was a man powerful in his profession,--and he was fond of ladies.

Lady Carbury in her letter had called herself an old woman, but she was satisfied to do so by a conviction that no one else regarded her in that light.