when terrified with the apprehenfion that her darling boy is drowned, is ftruck fenfelefs and almost dead with confternation; but when she is told that little mafter is fafe, and the Victory only with twelve hundred brave men gone to the bottom, life and fense again return, maternal fondness enjoys the fudden relief from all its fears, and the general benevolence, which at another time would have deeply felt the dreadful catastrophe, lies faft afleep in her mind. ? So Sophia, than whom none was more capable of tenderly feeling the general calamity of her country, found fuch immediate fatisfaction from the relief of those terrors she had of being overtaken by her father, that the arrival of the French scarce made any impreffion on her. She gently chid her maid for the fright into which she had thrown her; and faid, fhe was glad it was no worfe; for that fhe had feared fomebody elfe was come. دو دو "Ay, ay," quoth the landlord fmiling, "her Ladyship knows better things; fhe knows the French are our very best friends, and come over hither only for our good. They are the people who are to make Old England flourish again. I „ warrant her Honor thought the Duke was coming; and that was enough to put her into a fright. I " was going to tell your Ladyfhip the news. His Honor's Majefty, Heaven bless him, has given the Duke the flip, and is marching as faft as he ,, can to London, and ten thousand French are landed to join him on the road. دو دو ་ Sophia was not greatly pleafed with this news, nor with the gentleman who related it; but as she ftill imagined he knew her (for she could not poffibly have any fufpicion of the real truth) fhe durst not show any dislike. And now the landlord, having removed the cloth from the table, withdrew; but at his departure frequently repeated his hopes of being remembered hereafter. The mind of Sophia was not at all eafy under the fuppofition of being known at this houfe; for fhe ftill applied to herfelf many things which the landlord had addreffed to Jenny Cameron; fhe therefore ordered her maid to pump out of him by what means he had become acquainted with her person, and who had offered him the reward for betraying her; fhe likewife ordered the horses to be in readiness by four in the morning, at which hour Mrs. Fitzpatrick promised to bear her company; and then compofing herself as well as fhe could, fhe defired that Lady to continue her story. CHAP. VII. CHAP. VII. In which Mrs. Fitzpatrick concludes her Hiftory. WHILE HILE Mrs. Honor, in pursuance of the commands of her Mistress, ordered a bowl of punch, and invited my landlord and landlady to partake of it, Mrs. Fitzpatrick thus went on with her relation. دو "Moft of the officers who were quartered at a town in our neighbourhood were of my husband's acquaintance. Among thefe was a lieutenant, , a very pretty fort of man, and who was married to a woman fo agreeable both in her temper and converfation, that from our firft knowing each other, which was foon after my lying-in, we were almost infeparable companions; for I had the good fortune to make myself equally agreeable to her. دو دو دو " دو دو "The lieutenant, who was neither a fot nor a sportsman, was frequently of our parties; indeed, he was very little with my husband, and no more than good breeding constrained him to be, as he lived almost constantly at our house. My husband ,, often expreffed much diffatisfaction at the lieutenant's preferring my company to his; he was very ,, angry with me on that account, and gave me ,, many a hearty curfe for drawing away his com"panions; faying, I ought to be d-ned for having VOL. III. دو وو H » fpoiled one of the prettiest fellows in the world » by making a milk-fop of him." دو כל دو دو دو دو "You will be mistaken, my dear Sophia, if you imagine that the anger of my husband arose from my depriving him of a companion; for the lieu» tenant was not a perfon with whofe fociety a fool could be pleased; and if I fhould admit the pof, fibility of this, fo little right had my husband to place the lofs of his companion to me, that I » am convinced it was my converfation alone which induced him ever to come to the house. No, child, it was envy, the worst and most rancorous kind of envy, the envy of fuperiority of understanding. The wretch could not bear to fee my conversation preferred to his, by a man of whom he could not entertain the least jealousy. O my dear Sophy, you are a woman of sense, if you , marry a man, as is moft probable you will, of lefs capacity than yourfelf, make frequent trials of his temper before marriage, and fee whether he can bear to fubmit to that fuperiority.- Promife me, Sophy, you will take this advice; for you will hereafter find its im"portance. "It is very likely I fhall never " marry at all," anfwered, Sophia; "I think, at „ least, I shall never marry a man in whofe underftanding I fee any defects before marriage and I promife you I would rather give up my own, than fee any fuch afterwards."-" Give up your » understanding!" replied Mrs. Fitzpatrick; "O fie, child I will not believe fo meanly of you. دو وو دو وو رو ༦༦༦ دو دو Every thing else I might myself be brought to give up; but never this. Nature would not have allotted this fuperiority to the wife in fo many inftances, if she had intended we fhould all of ,, us have furrendered it to the hufband. This indeed men of fenfe never expect of us; of which the lieutenant I have juft mentioned was „ one notable example; for though he had a very good understanding, he always acknowledged, as was really true, that his wife had a better. And this, perhaps, was one reafon of the hatred » my tyrant bore her. כל دو " دو כל رو כל "Before he would be fo governed by a wife, he faid, especially fuch an ugly b—— b——(for indeed fhe was not a regular beauty; but very agreeable and extremely genteel) he would fee » all the women upon earth at the devil, which " was a very ufual phrafe with him. He faid, he wondered what I could fee in her to be fo charmed with her company; fince this wo» man, fays he, has come among us, there is an end of your beloved reading, which you pretended to like fo much, that you could not afford time to return the vifits of the Ladies in this and I must confefs I had been country; » guilty of a little rudenefs this way; for the Ladies there are at least no better than the mere » country Ladies here; and I think I need make ,, no other excufe to you for declining any inti"macy with them. رو |