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 his younger brother made love to me alſo, in ſuch an open manner that all the family took notice of it; but how I ſhould be a wife to him and a whore to his brother, I could not think of but with the utmoſt abhorrence, I lov- ing the former to extremity. But the younger brother preſſed me ſo hard, that I could not know what to make of it; and he even told his mother, that he was poſitive to marry me, let the event be what it would. In ſhort, the diſpute ran ſo high 'twixt his mother and him, that the reſolved to turn me off from the family, and what was to become of me then, put me to a ſad conſternation, as I had no friends to take me by the hand or ſopport me, and at any event my character would be ruined. I at laſt was obliged to make my caſe known to his elder bro- ther, and put him in mind of his ſo- lemn promiſes he made to me of mar- riage, which at firſt ſeemed to ſtartle him not a little; but he excuſed him- ſelf in not performing what he had promiſed, on acount that he was not come to the poſſeſſion of his eſtate, his father being ſtill alive, tho' not