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with their horfes? If I muft eat my hard fare here, Madam," cries fhe to the landlady, "I beg the kitchen may be kept clear, that I may not be furrounded with all the black-guards in town. » As for you, Sir," fays fhe turning to Partridge, "you look fomewhat like a gentleman, and may fit ftill if you please; I don't defire to disturb » any body but mob."

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"Yes, yes, Madam," cries Partridge, "I am a gentleman, I do affure you, and I am not fo eafily to be disturbed.

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Non femper vox cafualis " eft verbo nominativus. This Latin fhe took to be fome affront, and answered, "You may be a , gentleman, Sir; but you don't fhow yourself as ,, one, to talk Latin to a woman." Partridge made a gentle reply, and concluded with more Latin; upon which fhe toffed up her nofe, and contented herself by abufing him with the name of a great fcholar.

The fupper being now on the table, Mrs. Abigail eat very heartily, for fo delicate a perfon; and while a fecond course of the same was by her order preparing, fhe faid, "And fo, Madam, you tell me » your house is frequented by people of great quality."

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The landlady answered in the affirmative, faying, There was a great many very good quality and » gentlefolks in it now. There's young Squire Allworthy as that gentleman there knows."

"And pray who is this young gentleman of quality, this young Squire Allworthy?" Abigail.

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"Who fhould he be," anfwered Partridge, "but the fon and heir of the great Squire Allworthy, of Somersetshire."

Upon my word," said she, "you tell me strange news: for I know Mr. Allworthy of Somersetfhire very well, and I know he has no fon alive."

The landlady pricked up her ears at this, and Partridge looked a little confounded. However, after a fhort hesitation, he anfwered, "Indeed, Madam, it is true, every body does not know him to be Squire Allworthy's fon; for he was ,, never married to his mother; but his fon he certainly is, and will be his heir too as certainly as his name is Jones. At that word Abigail let drop the bacon, which she was conveying to her mouth, and cried out," You furprise me, Sir, " is it poffible Mr. Jones fhould be now in the houfe?" "Quare non?" answered Partridge, "it

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is poffible, and it is certain.

Abigail now made hafte to finish the remainder of her meal, and then repaired back to her Mistress, when the converfation paffed, which may be read in the next Chapter,

CHA P. V.

Showing who the amiable Lady, and her unamiable Maid, were.

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As in the month of June, the damask rose, which chance has planted among the lilies, with their candid hue mixes his vermilion: or, as fome playfome heifer in the pleasant month of May, diffufes her odoriferous breath over the flowery meadows or as, in the blooming month of April, the gentle, constant dove, perched on some fair bough, fits meditating on her mate: fo looking a hundred charms, and breathing as many fweets, her thoughts being fixed on her Tommy, with a heart as good and innocent, as her face was beautiful Sophia (for it was fhe herfelf) lay reclining her lovely head on her hand, when her maid entered the room, and running directly to the bed, cried, "Madam-Madam-who does "your Ladyfhip think is in the house?" Sophia ftarting up, cried, "I hope my father has not overtaken us. "No, Madam, it is one worth ,, a hundred fathers; Mr. Jones himself is here at this very inftant." "Mr. Jones!" fays Sophia, it is impoffible; I cannot be fo fortunate." Her maid averred the fact, and was presently detached by her Mistress to order him to be called; for she faid fhe was refolved to fee him immediately.

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Mrs. Honor had no fooner left the kitchen in the manner we have before feen, than the landlady fell feverely upon her. The poor woman had indeed been loading her heart with foul language for fome time; and now it fcoured out of her mouth, as filth does from a mud-cart, when the board which confines it, is removed. Partridge likewise shovelled in his share of calumny; and (what may furprise the Reader) not only befpattered the maid, but attempted to fully the lily-white character of Sophia herself. "Never a barrel the better herring,' cries he. "Nofcitur a focio, is a true faying. It must be confeffed indeed that the Lady in the fine ,, garments is the civiller of the two; but I warrant neither of them are a bit better than they fhould be. A couple of Bath trulls, I'll anfwer for them; your quality don't ride about at this time o'night without fervants. "Sbodlikins, and that's true," cries the landlady, "you have certainly hit upon the very matter very matter; for quality don't come into a house without bespeaking a fupper whether they eat any or no.

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While they were thus difcourfing, Mrs. Honor returned, and discharged her commission, by bidding the landlady immediately wake Mr. Jones, and tell him a Lady wanted to speak with him. The landlady referred her to Partridge, faying, "he was the Squire's friend; but for her part, she never ,, called men-folks, especially gentlemen," and then walked fullenly out of the kitchen. Honor applied herself to Partridge; but he refufed; "For

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» my friend," cries he, "went to bed and he would be very angry to be difturbed fo foon." Mrs. Honor infifted ftill to have him called, faying, "She was fure, instead of being ,, angry, that he would be to the highest degree delighted when he knew the occafion. "Another time, perhaps, he might," cries Partridge; but non omnia poffumus. omnes. One Woman is enough at once for a reasonable man. "What do you mean by one woman, fellow?" cries Honor. "None of your fellow, anfwered Partridge. He then proceeded to inform her plainly, that Jones was in bed with a wench, and made ufe of an expreffion too indelicate to be here inferted; which fo enraged Mrs. Honor, that fhe called him faucy jackanapes, and returned in a violent hurry to her Mistress,, whom fhe acquainted with the fuccefs of her errand, and with the account she had received; which, if poffible, she exaggerated, being as angry with Jones, as if he had pronounced all the words that came from the mouth of Partridge. She difcharged a torrent of abuse on the Master, and advised her Mistress to quit áll thoughts of a man who had never fhown himfelf deferving of her. She then ripped up the story of Molly Seagrim, and gave the most malicious turn to his formerly quitting Sophia herself, which, I must confefs, the prefent incident not a little countenanced.

The fpirits of Sophia were too much diffipated by concern to enable her to stop the torrent of her