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 Upon which she assumed a stateliness of behaviour, and sat very silent during the remaining part of the entertainment. At any other time I should have been prodigiously alarmed at her suspicion, but at that instant, I was elevated by my passion above every other consideration. The mistress of my soul having retired with her brother, I discovered so much uneasiness at my situation, that Miss Snappet proposed to go home.

Next day as I went to the bath, in hopes of seeing or hearing some tidings of my fair enslaver, I was met by a gentlewoman, who having looked hard at me, cried, O C—! Mr. Random! Surprised at this exclamation I examined the countenance of the person who spoke, and immediately recognised my old sweetheart and fellow sufferer (formerly mentioned) Miss Williams, I was mightily pleased to find this unfortunate woman under such a decent appearance, professed my joy at seeing her so well, and desired to know where I should have the pleasure of her conversation. She was as heartily pleased at the apparent easiness of my fortune, and gave me to know, that she as yet, had no habitation that she could properly call her own: but would wait on me at any place I would please to appoint. Understanding that she was disengaged for the present, I shewed her the way to my own lodgings, where, after a very affectionate salutation, Rh