་ ་ fellows, but looks upon himself to be as good as arrow a 'fquire of 500l. a year. To be fure it doth me good to hear their men run about after 'um, crying your honour and your honour. Marry come up with fuch honour, and an ordinary at a Gilling a head. Then there's fuch fwearing among 'um, to be fure, it frightens me out of my wits; I thinks nothing can ever profper with fuch wicked people. And here one of 'um has used you in fo barbarous a manner. I thought indeed how well the reft would fecure him; they all hang together; for if you had been in danger of death, which I am glad to fee you are not, it would have been all as one to fuch wicked people. They would have let the murderer go. Laud have mercy upon 'um; I would not have fuch a fin to anfwer for, for the whole world. But though you are likely, with the bleffing, to recover, there is laa for him yet; and if you will employ lawyer Small, I dareft be fworn he'll make the fellow fly the country for him; though perhaps he'll have • fled the country before; for it is here to-day and gone to morrow with fuch chaps. I hope, however, you will learn more wit for the future, and return back to your friends: I warrant they are all miferable for your lofs; and if they was but to know what had happened La, my feeming! I would not for the world they fhould. Come, come, we know very well what all the matter is; but if one wont, another will; fo pretty a gentleman need never want a lady. I am fure, if I was as you, I would fee the finest she that ever wore a head hanged, be-fore I would go for a foldier for her.—Nay, don't blush fo (for indeed he did to a violent degree ;) why, you thought, Sir, I knew nothing of the ⚫ matter, I warrant you, about Madam Sophia.' How,' fays Jones, ftarting up, do you know my Sophia? Do I ay marry,' cries the landlady, many's 'sthe time hath the lain in this house.' • With ⚫ her aunt, I fuppofe,' fays Jones Why there it is now,' cries the landlady. Ay, ay, ay, I know the old lady very well. And a fweet young creature ⚫ is. is Madam Sophia, that's the truth on't.' Afweet 'creature!' cries Jones, O heavens ! Angels are painted fair to look like her. And could I ever have imagined that you had known my Sophia!' I wifh," fays the landlady, you knew half fo much of her. What would you ' have given to have fat by her bed fide? What a delicious neck the hath! Her lovely limbs have Atretched themfelves in that very bed you now lie 'in.' Here!' cries Jones, hath Sophia ever laid here? Ay, ay, here: there; in that very bed,' fays the landlady, where I with you had her this 'moment; and the may with fo too for any thing I 'know to the contrary: for she hath mentioned your name to me.'-Ha,' cries he, did the ever men 'tion her poor Jones- You flatter me now; I can never believe so much.' Why then,' anfwered the, as I hope to be faved, and may the devil fetch me, ' if I fpeak a fyllable more than the truth. I have 'heard her mention Mr. Jones; but in a civil and modeft way, I confefs; yet I could perceive the thought a great deal more than fhe faid.' 'O my ' dear woman,' cries Jones, her thoughts of me I 'fhall never be worthy of. O fhe is all gentleness, • kindness, goodnefs. Why was fuch a rafcal as I born, ever to give her foft bofom a moment's un eafinefs? why am I curfed? I, who would ungergo all the plagues and miferies which any demon ever 'invented for mankind, to procure her any good; nay, torture itself could not be mifery to me, did 'I but know that the was happy.' Why, look you 'there now,' fays the landlady, I told her you ་ was a conftant lover.' But pray, Madam, tell me when or where you knew any thing of me; for 'I never was here before, nor do I remember ever to have feen you.' Nor is it poffible you should,' anfwered anfwered fhe; for you was a little thing when I had you in my lap at the 'fquire's.'• How the 'fquire's,' fays Jones, what do you know that great and good Mr. Allworthy then?' • Yes, t marry do I,' fays fhe; who in the country doth not?' The fame of his goodness indeed, anfwered Jones, muft have extended farther than this; but heaven only can know him, can know that benevolence which it copied from itself, and fent upon earth as its own pattern. Mankind are . as ignorant of fuch.divine goodness, as they are unworthy of it; but none fo unworthy of it as my • felf. I who was raised by him to fuch a height; taken in, as you must well know, a poor bafe born child, adopted by him, and treated as his own fon, to dare by my follies to difoblige him, to draw his vengeance upon me. Yes, I deferve it all: for I will never be fo ungrateful as ever to think he hath done an act of injustice by me. No, I deferve to be turned out of doors as I am. And now, Madam, fays he, I believe you will not blame me for turning foldier, efpecially with fuch a fortune as this in my pocket.' At which words he fhook a purfe, which had but very little in it, and which ftill appeared to the landlady to have lefs. My good landlady was (according to vulgar phrafe) ftruck all of a heap by this relation. She answered coldly, That to be fure people were the best judges 'what was most proper for their circumftances. But hark,' fays fhe, I think I hear fomebody call. Coming! Coming! the devil's in all our volk, ' nobody hath any ears. I must go down ftairs, if you want any more breakfaft, the maid will come up. Coming!'. At which words, without taking any leave, the flung out of the room for the lower fort of people are very tenacious of respect; and though they are contented to give this gratis to perfons of quality, yet they never confer it on those of their own order, without taking care to be well paid for their pains. CHAP. CHA P. III. In which the furgeon makes his fecond appearance BEFORE we proceed any farther, that the landlady knew more than fhe did, nor surprised that the knew so much, it may be neceffary to inform him, 'that the lieutenant had acquainted her that the name of Sophia had been the occafion of the quarrel; and as for the rest of her knowledge, the fagacious reader will obferve how the came by it in the preceding fcene. Great curiofity was indeed mixed with her virtues; and the never willingly fuffered any one to depart from her houfe without enquiring as much as pollible into their names, families, and fortunes. She was no fooner gone than Jones, infead of animadverting on her behaviour, reflected that he was in the fame bed, which he was informed had held his dear Sophia. This occafioned a thousand fond and tender thoughts, which we would dwell longer upon did we not confider that fuch kind of lovers will make a very inconfiderable part of our readers. In this fituation the furgeon found him, when he came to drefs his wound. The doctor, perceiving, upon examination, that his pulfe was difordered, and hearing that he had not flept, declared that he was in great danger: for he apprehended a fever was coming on; which he would have prevented by bleeding, but Jones would not fubmit, declaring he would lofe no more blood; and doctor,' fays he, if you will be 'fo kind only to dress my head, I have no doubt of being well in a day or two.' I with,' anfwered the furgeon, I could affure your being well in a month or two. Well indeed! No, no, people are not fo foon well of fuch contufions; but, Sir, I am not at this time of day to be inftructed in my operations by a patient, and I infift on making a revulfion before I drefs you.' Jones perfifted obftinately in his refufal, and the doctor at last yielded; telling him at the fame time, VOL. VIII. that < that he would not be anfwerable for the ill confequence, and hoped he would do him the juftice to acknowledge that he had given him a contrary advice; which the patient promised he would. The doctor retired into the kitchen, where, addreffing himself to the landlady, he complained bitterly of the undutiful behaviour of his patient, who would not be blooded, though he was in a fever. It is an eating fever then," fays the landlady: for he hath devoured two fwinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast ' Very likely,' fays the doctor; I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily account⚫ed for; because the acidity occafioned by the febrile matter, may ftimulate the nerves of the diaphragm, and thereby occafion a craving, which will not be eafily diftinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor affimilated into chyle, and fo will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific fymptoms. Indeed I think the gentleman in a very dangerous way, and if he is not blooded, I am afraid will die.' · Every man muft die fome time or other,' answered the good woman; it is no business of mine. I hope, Doctor, you would not have me hold him while you bleed him.- -But, harkee, a word in your ear; I would advise you before you proceed too far, to take care who is to be your paymaster." Paymafter' faid the doctor, ftaring, why, I've a gentleman under my hands, have I not?' 6 I imagined fo as well as you,' faid the landlady but as my firft: husband used to fay, every thing is not what it looks to be. He is an arrant fcrub, I • affure you. However, take no notice that I mentioned any thing to you of the matter; but I think people in bufinefs oft always to let one another know fuch things.' And have I fuffered fuch a fellow as this,' cries the doctor, in a paffion, to inftruct me? Shall I hear my practice infulted by one who will not pay. me! I am glad I have made this discovery in time. 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