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 This letter added much to the diquietude which before began to torment poor Molly’s breat. She read it over twenty times, and, at lat, having carefully urvey’d every part of the room, that no body was preent, he kied it eagerly. However, as he was perfectly modet, and afraid of appearing too forward, he reolved not to anwer this firt letter; and if he met the Doctor, to behave with great coldnes towards him.

Her mother being ill, prevented her going out that day; and the next morning he received a econd letter from the Doctor, in terms more warm and endearing than before, and which made o abolute a conquet over the unexperienc’d and tender heart of this poor girl, that he uffered herelf to be prevailed on, by the intreaties of her lover, to write an anwer, which nevertheles he derermin’d hould be o ditant and cool, that the woman of the trictet virtue and modety in England might have no reaon to be aham’d of having writ it; of which letter the reader hath here an exact copy:

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Haf recevd boath your too litters, and ur I ham much urprie hat the loafe you priten to haf for o pur a garl as mee. I kan nut beleef you wul degrace yourelf by marring utch a yf as mee, and Sur I wool nut be thee hore of the gratet man in the kuntry. For thof mi vartu be all I haf, yit hit is a potion I ham riolv to kare to mi houband, oe noe moor at preant, from your umble avant to cummand."

The Doctor received this letter with all the ectaies any lover could be inpired with, and, as Mr. Congreve ays in his Old Batchelor, Thought there