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'I protest,' cries she, 'you make me tremble for the ' event of this matter, which, if you will proceed by my advice, you may bring to so good an issue. Do you 'really imagine, brother, that the house of a woman of figure is to be attacked by warrants and brutal justices of the peace? I will inform you how to pro'ceed. As soon as you arrive in town, and have got 'yourself into a decent dress, (for, indeed, brother, you 'have none at present fit to appear in), you must send 'your compliments to Lady Bellaston, and desire leave to wait on her. When you are admitted to her presence, as you certainly will be, and have told her story, and have made proper use of my name (for I เ think you just know one another only by sight, though you are relations), I am confident she will withdraw her protection from my niece, who hath certainly imposed upon her. This is the only method.-Justices of peace, 'indeed! do you imagine any such event can arrive to a woman of figure in a civilized nation?'

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'D-n their figures,' cries the squire; a pretty 'civilized nation, truly, where women are above the law. And what must I stand sending a parcel of compliments to a confounded whore, that keeps away a daughter from her own natural father? I tell you, 'sister, I am not so ignorant as you think me.--I 'know you would have women above the law, but it 'is all a lie; I heard his lordship say at Size, that no 'one is above the law. But this of yours is Hanover ' law, I suppose.'

'Mr. Western,' said she, 'I think you daily improve in 'ignorance. I protest you are grown an arrant bear.' No more a bear than yourself, sister Western,' said the squire.Pox! you may talk of your civility an

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Mr. Western,' answered the lady, 'you may say what you please, Je vous mesprise de tout mon cœur. 'shall not therefore be angry.--Besides, as my cousin, 'with that odious Irish name, justly says, I have that regard for the honour and true interest of my family, ' and that concern for my niece, who is a part of it, 'that I have resolved to go to town myself upon this 'occasion; for indeed, indeed, brother, you are not a fit minister to be employed at a polite court.--Green'land-Greenland should always be the scene of the เ tramontane negociation.'

'I thank heaven,' cries the squire, 'I don't understand 'you now. You are got to your Hanoverian linguo. 'However I'll shew you I scorn to be behind-hand in เ civility with you; and as you are not angry for what 'I have said, so I am not angry for what you have said. Indeed I have always thought it a folly for relations to quarrel; and if they do now and then give a hasty word, why, people should give and take; for my part 'I 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 stay above a fortnight at a time, and to be sure I can't be expected to know much of the streets and the folks in that time. I never denied เ that you know'd all these matters better than I. For 'me to dispute that would be all as one, as for you to 'dispute the management of a pack of dogs, or the find'ing a hare sitting, with me.'-Which I promise you,' says she, 'I never will.'-' Well, and I promise you,' returned he, that I never will dispute t'other.'

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Here then a league was struck (to borrow a phrase from the lady) between the contending parties; and now the parson arriving, and the horses being ready, the squire departed, having promised his sister to follow her advice, and she prepared to follow him the next day.

But having communicated these matters to the parson on the road, they both agreed that the prescribed formalities might very well be dispensed with; and the squire having changed his mind, proceeded in the manner we have already seen.

CHAPTER VII.

In which various misfortunes befel poor Jones.

AFFAIRS 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 she found herself alone, she began as follows:

'O my dear Sir! how shall I get spirits to tell you; 'you are undone, Sir, and my poor lady's undone, and I 'am undone.' 'Hath any thing happened to Sophia?' cries Jones, staring like a madman.. All that is bad,' cries Honour: 'O, I shall never get such another lady! 'O that I should ever live to see this day!' At these words Jones turned pale as ashes, trembled and stammered; but Honour went on. 'O! Mr. Jones, I have 'lost my lady for ever.' 'How! what? for heaven's 'sake tell me. O my dear Sophia!'-' You may well 'call her so,' said Honour; เ to me. I shall never have 'D-n your place,' cries Jones;

she was the dearest lady such another place.'where is? what! what

is become of my Sophia?' Ay, to be sure,' cries she, 'servants may be d-n'd. It signifies nothing what 'becomes of them, though they are turned away, and ruined ever so much. To be sure they are not flesh ' and blood like other people. No, to be sure, it signifies nothing what becomes of them.'-'If you 'have any pity, any compassion,' cries Jones, 'I beg you will instantly tell me what hath happened to 'Sophia?' To be sure I have more pity for you than you have for me,' answered Honour; 'I don't 'd-n you because you have lost the sweetest lady in the world. To be sure you are worthy to be pitied, ' and I am worthy to be pitied too: for to be sure if เ ever there was a good mistress- "What hath happened?' cries Jones, in almost a raving fit. • What? What?' said 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.—' No 'worse!' repeated Honour, 'what could be worse for ' either of us? He carried her off, swearing she should marry Mr. Blifil; that's for your comfort; and for poor me, I am turned out of doors.' 'Indeed, Mrs. Honour,' answered Jones, you frightened me out of my wits. I imagined some most dreadful sudden 'accident had happened to Sophia; something, compared to which, even the seeing 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 sure, Sir,' said she, 'that's true. There may be some hopes for you; but alack-a-day! what hopes are 'there for poor me? And to be sure, Sir, you must be 'sensible I suffer all this upon your account. All the

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quarrel the squire hath to me is for taking your part, เ as I have done, against Mr. Blifil.' 'Indeed, Mrs. 'Honour,' answered he, 'I am sensible of my obligations 'to you, and will leave nothing in my power undone to 'make you amends.' 'Alas! Sir,' said she, 'what can 'make a servant amends for the loss of one place, but 'the getting another altogether as good!'' Do not 'despair, Mrs. Honour,' said Jones, 'I hope to reinstate you again in the same.' 'Alack-a-day, Sir,' said she, 'how can I flatter myself with such hopes, when I know 'it is a thing impossible; for the squire is so set against me: and yet if you should ever have my lady, as to be sure I now hopes heartily you will; for you are a generous, good-natured gentleman, and I am sure you เ loves her, and to be sure she loves you as dearly as her own soul; it is a matter in vain to deny it; because as why, every body that is in the least acquainted with my lady must see it; for, poor dear lady, she can't 'dissemble; and if two people who loves one another 'a'n't happy, why, who should be so? Happiness 'don't always depend upon what people has; besides, my lady has enough for both. To be sure, therefore, as one may say, it would be all the pity in the world to keep two such loviers asunder; nay, I am convinced for my part, you will meet together at last; for if it is to 'be, there is no preventing it. If a marriage is made in เ heaven, all the justices of peace upon earth can't break it off. To be sure I wishes that parson Supple had but 6 a little more spirit to tell the squire of his wickedness in endeavouring to force his daughter contrary to her liking; but then his whole dependence is on the squire, ' and so the poor gentleman, though he is a very religious good sort of man, and talks of the badness of such doings behind the squire's back, yet he dares not say his soul is his own to his face. To be sure I never saw