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No more a bear than yourself, fifter Western,' faid the fquire.- - Pex! you may talk of your civility an you will. I am fure you never fhew any to me.

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no bear, no, nor no dog neither, though I know fomebody, that is fomething that begins with a b; but pox! I will fhew you I have got more good manners than fome folks."

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'Mr Weltern,' anfwered the lady, you may fay what you please, je vous mesprise de tout mon cœur. fhall not therefore be angry. Befides, as my coufih with that odious Irifh name justly says, I have that regard for the honour and true intereft of my family, and that concern for my niece, who is a part of it, that I have refolved to go to town myself upon this occafion : for indeed, indeed, brother, you are not a fit minifter to be employed at a polite court.-Greenland-Greenland fhould always be the fcene of the tramontane ne'gotiation.'

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I thank Heaven,' cries the fquire, I don't underftand you now. You are got to your Hannoverian linguo. However I'll fhew you I fcorn to be behind hand in civility with you; and as you are not angry for what you have faid, fo I am not angry for what you have faid. Indeed I have always thought it a folly. for relations to quarrel; and if they do now and then give a hafty word, why, people fhould give and take. For my part, I never bear malice; and I take it very • kind of you to go up to London; for I never was there but twice in my life, and then I did not ftay above a fortnight at a time, and to be fure I can't be expected to know much of the streets and the folks in that time. I never denied that you know'd all thefe matters better than I. For me to dispute that, would be all as one for you to difpute the management of a pack of dogs, or the finding a hare fitting with me.'Which I promife you,' fays flie, I never will.'Well, and I promise you,' returned he, that I never 'will difpute t'other.'

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Here then a league was ftruck (to borrow a phrase from the lady) between the contending parties; and now

the parfon arriving, and the horses being ready, the fquire departed, having promised his fifter to follow her advice, and fhe prepared to follow him the next day.

But having communicated thefe matters to the parfon on the road, they both agreed that the prefcribed formalities might very well be difpenfed with; and the fquire having changed his mind, proceeded in the maner we have already feen.

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In which various misfortunes befel poor Jones.

FFAIRS were in the aforesaid situation when Mrs Honour arrived at Mrs Miller's, and called Jones out from the company, as we have before seen, with whom, when the found herself alone, fhe began as follows.

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O my dear Sir, how fhall I get fpirits to tell you: you are undone, Sir, and my poor lady's undone, and I am nndone.' Hath any thing happened to Sophia ? cries Jones. ftaring like a madman. All that is bad',. eries Honour ; OI fhall never get fuch another lady!

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O that I fhould ever live to fee this day!' At thefe words Jones rurned pale as afhes, trembled and stammered; but Honour went on. 'O, Mr Jones, I have loft my lady for ever.' How! what! for Heaven's fake tell me.- O my dear Sophia !'. "You may well call her fo,' faid Honour; fhe was the dearest lady -I fhall never have fuch another place.'D—n your place,' cries Jones; where is? what!' what is become of my Sophia ?? Ay, to be fure,” cries fhe, fervants may be d-n'd. It fignifies nothing what becomes of them, though they are turned away, and ruined ever fo much. To be fure they are not flesh and blood like other people. No, to be fure, it" fignifies nothing what becomes of them.' If you have any pity, any compaffion,' cries Jones, I beg you will inftantly tell me what hath happened to Sophia? be fure I have more pity for than you have for me," anfwered Honour; I dont d-n you because you have loft the sweetest lady in the world. To be fure you are worthy to be pitied, and I am worthy to be pitied too for to be fure if ever there was a good mistress,**

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-What hath happened,' cries Jones, in almost a raving fit.'- -What? -What? faid Honour: why the worst that could have happened both for you and for me.Her father is come to town, and hath carried her away from us both.' Here Jones fell on his knees in thanksgiving that it was no worse.worfe! repeated Honour, what could be worse for either of us? He carried her off, fwearing fhe could marry Mr Blifil; that's for your comfort; and for poor me, I am turned out of doors.' ' Indeed, Mrs Honour,' anfwered Jones, you frightened me out of my wits. I imagined fome moft dreadful fudden accident had happened to Sophia; fomething, compared to which even the feeing her married to Blifil would be a trifle; but while there is life, there are hopes, · my dear Honour. Women in this land of liberty cannot be married by actual brutal force.' To be fure, • Sir,' faid fhe, that's true. There may be fome hopes for you; but alack a-day! what hopes are there for " poor me? And to be fure, Sir, you must be sensible I fuffer all this upon your account. All the quarrel the fquire hath to me is for taking your part, as I have done against Mr Blifil.' Indeed, Mrs Honour,' anfwered he, I am fenfible of my obligations to you, and will leave nothing in my power undone to make you • amends.' Alas, Sir,' faid fhe, what can make a • fervant amends for the lofs of one place, but the getting another altogether as good!' Do not defpair, Mrs Honour,' faid Jones, I hope to reinftate you again in the fame.' Alack a-day, Sir, faid fhe, how can I flatter myself with fuch hopes, when I know it's a thing impoffible; for the fquire is fo fet against me and yet if you should ever have my lady, as to be fure I now hopes heartily you will; for you are a generous good-natured gentleman, and I am fure you loves her, and to be fure fhe loves you as dearly as her own foul; ⚫ it is a matter in vain to deny it; "becaufe as why, every body that is in the leaft acquainted with my lady muft fee it; for poor dear lady, fhe can't diffemble; and if two people who loves one another a'n't happy, why who fhould be fo? Happiness don't always depend upon what people has; befides, my lady has enough for

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both. To be fure therefore as one may fay, it would be all the pity in the world to keep two fuch lovers afunder; nay, I am convinced, for my part, you will meet together at laft; for if it is to be, there is no preventing of it. If a marriage is made in heaven, all the juftices of peace upon earth can't break it off. Τα be fure I wishes that parfon Supple had but a little more fpirit to tell the fquire of his wickedness in en'deavouring to force his daughter contrary to her liking; but then his whole dependence is upon the fquire; and fo the poor gentleman, though he is a very religious good fort of man, and talks of the badnefs of fuch doings, behind the squire's back, yet he dares not say his foul is his own to his face. To be fure I never faw ' him make fo bold as juft now; I was afeard the squire would have ftruck him.- -I would not have your honour be melancholy, Sir, nor defpair; things may go better, as long as you are fure of my lady, and 'that I am certain you may be; for fhe never will be brought to confent to marry an other man. Indeed,

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I am terribly afeard the fquire will do her a mischief in his paffion: for he is a prodigious paffionate gentleman, and I am afeard too the lady will be brought to break her heart; for fhe is as tender-hearted as a chicken; it is pity, methinks, fhe had not a little of If I was in love with a young man, and my courage. my father offered to lock me up, I'd tear his eyes out, but I'd come at him. But then there's a great fortune in the cafe, which it is in her father's power either to give her or not; that, to be fure, may make fome dif'ference.'

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Whether Jones gave ftrict attention to all the foregoing harangue, or whither it was for want of any vacancy in the difcourfe, I cannot determine; but he never once attempted to answer, nor did fhe once ftop, till Partridge came running into the room, and informed him that the great lady was upon the stairs.

Nothing could equal the dilemma to which Jones was now reduced. Honour knew nothing of any acquaintance that fubfifted between him and Lady Bellafton, and fhe was almost the last perfon in the world to whom he would have communicated it. In this burry and distress

he took (as is common enough) the worft courfe, and inftead of expofing her to the lady, which would have been of little confequence, he chofe to expofe the lady to her; he therefore refolved to hide Honour, whom he had but just time to convey behind the bed, and to draw the curtains.

The hurry in which Jones had been all the day engaged on account of his poor landlady and her family, the terrors occafioned by Mrs Honour, and the confusion into which he was thrown, by the fudden arrival of Lady Bellafton, had altogether driven former thoughts out of his head; fo that it never once occurred to his memory to act the part of a fick man; which indeed, neither the gaiety of his drefs, nor the freshness of his countenance, would have at all fupported.

He received her ladyship, therefore, rather agreeably, to her defires, than to her expectations, with all the good humour he could mufter up in his countenance, and without any real or affected appearance of the leaft diforder.

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Lady Bellafton no fooner entered the room, than she fquatted herself down on the bed: So, my dear Jones,' faid fhe, you find nothing can detain me long from you. • Perhaps I ought to be angry with you, that I have neither feen nor heard from you all day; for I perceive your distemper would have fuffered you to come abroad: nay, I fuppofe you have not fat in your chamber all day dreffed up like a fine lady to fee company after a lying-in; but however, don't think I intend to fcold you: for I never will give you an excufe for the cold behaviour of a husband, by putting on the ill humour of a wife.'

Nay, Lady Bellafton,' faid Jones, I am fure your Ladyfhip will not upbraid me with neglect of duty, when I only waited for orders. Who, my dear creature, hath reason to complain? Who miffed an appointment last night, and left an unhappy man to expect, and wifh, and figh, and languish?

Do not mention it, my dear Mr Jones,' cried e. • If you knew the occafion, you would pity me. In fhort, it is impoffible to conceive what women of condition are obliged to fuffer, from the impertinence of fools, in order to keep up the farce of the world. I am glad,

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