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 would have exchanged the Doctor for the greatet and richet match in the world.

And had not her affections been fixed in this trong manner, it is poible that an accident which happened the very next night might have altered her mind: for being at another dancing with her lover, a quarrel aroe between the Doctor and a man there preent, upon which the mother eizing the former violently by the collar, tore open her watecoat, and rent her hirt, o that all her breat was dicovered, which, tho’ beyond expreion beautiful in a woman, were of o different a kind from the boom of a man, that the married women there et up a great titter; and tho’ it did not bring the Doctor’s ex into an abolute upicion, yet caued ome whipers, which perhaps might have poiled the match with a les innocent and les enamoured virgin.

It had however no uch effect on poor Molly. As her fond heart was free from any deceit, o was it entirely free from upicion; and accordingly, at the fixed time he met the Doctor, and their nuptials were celebrated in the uual form.

The mother was extremely pleaed at this preferment (as he thought it) of her daughter. The joy of it did indeed contribute to retore her perfectly to health, and nothing but mirth and happines appeared in the faces of the whole family.

The new married couple not only continued, but greatly increaed the fondnes which they had conceived for each other, and poor Molly, from ome tories he told among her acquaintance, the other young married women of the town, was received as a great fibber, and was at lat univerally laughed at as uch among them all.

Three months pat in this manner, when the Doctor was ent for to Glatonbury to a patient (for the