دو دو "With this I peremptorily refused to comply. I told him, and I told him truly, that had I been poffeffed of the Indies at our first marriage, he might have. commanded it all: for it had been a conftant maxim with me, that where a woman disposes of her heart, she should always depofite her fortune; but as he had been fo kind, long ago, to restore the former into my poffeffion, I was refolved likewife to retain what little remained of the latter. "I will not defcribe to you the paffion into which these words, and the refolute air in which they were spoken, threw him: nor will I trouble "you with the whole fcene which fucceeded between us. Out came, you may be well affured, the ftory of the Miftrefs; and out it did come, with all the embellishments which anger and difdain could beftow upon it. دو دو دو "Mr. Fitzpatrick feemed a little thunderstruck with this, and more confufed than I had feen him; though his ideas are always confused enough, Heaven knows. He did not, however, endeavour to exculpate himself; but took a method which almost equally confounded me. What jealous; כ, دو " was this but recrimination! He affected to be he may, for ought I know, be inclined enough to jealoufy in his natural temper: ,, nay, he must have had it from nature, or the devil must have put it into his head; for I defy all the world to caft a juft afperfion on my دو دو 33 دو character: nay, the most scandalous tongues have never dared to cenfure my reputation. My fame, I thank Heaven, has been always as spotlefs as ,, my life; and let falfhood itself accuse that, if it dare. No, my dear Graveairs, however provok ,, ed, however ill treated, however injured in ,, my love, I have firmly refolved never to give the leaft room for cenfure on this account. "> And yet, my dear, there are fome people fo ,, malicious, fome tongues fo venomous, that no innocence can escape them. The most undefigned word, the most accidental look, the least familiarity, the most innocent freedom, will be ,, mifconftrued, and magnified into I know not ,, what, by fome people. But I defpife, my dear Graveairs, I defpife all fuch flander. No fuch malice, I affure you, ever gave me an uneafy moment. No, no, I promise you I am above all that but where was I? O let me fee, I told you ,, my husband was jealous—and of whom, pray? Why of whom but the lieutenant I mentioned to you before? He was obliged to refort above ,, a year and more back, to find any object for this unaccountable paffion, if indeed he really felt any fuch, and was not an arrant counter,, feit, in order to abuse me. دو رو دو "But I have tired you already with too many particulars. I will now » very fpeedy conclufion. bring my story to a In fhort then, after » many scenes very unworthy to be repeated, in which my coufin engaged fo heartily on my " دو دو » fide, that Mr. Fitzpatrick at laft turned her out of doors; when he found I was neither to be foothed nor bullied into compliance, he took a » very violent method indeed. Perhaps you will conclude he beat me; but this, tho' he has ap proached very near to it, he never actually did. He confined me to my room, without fuffering ,, me to have either pen, ink, paper, or book; and a fervant every day made my bed, and » brought me my food. دو دو دو " در دو "When I had remained a week under this im» prisonment, he made me a vifit, and, with the voice of a schoolmafter, or, what is often much the fame, of a tyrant, afked me, "if I would yet " comply?" I answered very ftoutly, "that I would die first. " "Then fo you fhall, and be d-n'd," cries he; "for you fhall never go alive out of this room. دو دو “Here I remained a fortnight longer; and, to say the truth, my conftancy was almost subdued, and I began to think of fubmiffion; when one day in the absence of my husband, who was gone abroad for fome short time, by the greatest good fortune in the world, an accident happened. — I — at a time when I began to give way to the utmost defpair every thing would be excufable at fuch a time at that very time I received- but it would take up an hour to tell you all particulars — In one word, then, for I will not tire you with رو circumftances) gold, the common key to all pad„ locks, opened my door, and fet me at liberty. رو دو "I now made hafte to Dublin, where I imme,,diately procured a paffage to England: and was proceeding to Bath, in order to throw myself into the protection of my aunt, or of your father, or of ,, any relation who would afford it me. My husband overtook me last night, at the inn where I lay, and which you left a few minutes before me; but I had the good luck to escape him, and to follow you. و دو "And thus, my dear, ends my history: a tragical one, I am fure, it is to myself; but, perhaps, I ought rather to apologize to you for its dulnefs." But Sophia heaved a deep figh, and answered, "In,, deed, Harriet, I pity you from my foul! what could you expect? Why, why, would » marry an Irishman ?" رو رو دو دو you Upon my word," replied her coufin, “your cenfure is unjuft. There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honor, as any among the English: nay, to fpeak the truth, generofity of fpirit is rather more common among them. I have known fome examples there too of good husbands; ,,and, I believe, these are not very plenty in England. Afk me, rather, what I could expect when I married a fool? and I will tell you a folemn truth; I did not know him to be fo. دو " دو faid Sophia, in a very low and altered voice, you think, make a bad husband, who is not a fool?" "That," answered the other, "is too general a negative; but none, I believe, is fo likely as a fool to prove fo. Among my acquaintance, the fillieft fellows are the worst hufbands; and I will venture to affert, as a fact, that a man of fenfe rarely behaves very ill to a wife, who deferves very well.” CHA P. VIII. A dreadful Alarm in the Inn, with the Arrival of an unexpected Friend of Mrs. Fitzpatrick. SOPHIA OPHIA now, at the defire of her coufin, related - not what follows, but what has gone before in this Hiftory: for which reafon the Reader will, I fuppofe, excufe me, for not repeating it over again. One remark, however, I cannot forbear making on her narrative, namely, that she made no more mention of Jones, from the beginning to the end, than if there had been no fuch perfon alive. This I will neither endeavour to account for, nor to excufe. Indeed, if this may be called a kind of difhonefty, it seems the more inexcufable, from the apparent openness and explicit fincerity of the other Lady. But fo it was. -- Just as Sophia arrived at the conclufion of her story, there arrived in the room where the two Ladies were fitting, a noife, not unlike, in loudnefs, to that of a pack of hounds just let out from |