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 out of her mouth, he pulled the bell with a jerk, adding, “You ſhall ſoon be out of a houſe which has been ſo diſagreeable to you," Mrs H——s herſelf made her appearance and congratulated him on his victory. "I have triumphed gloriouſy, mother, replied he, "for I have triumphed over the devil: therefore, prythee ſend for a chair directly." Mrs H——s, though ſhe knew that Frank was an odd character, did not know very well what conſtruction to put upon that is ſpeech; but as he was too good a cuſtomer to have his orders diſputed, ſhe went down, and a chair was immediately called. Mrs H——s ſaw Maria ſeated in it with ſome fur-priſe; but imagining that Frank, having a whimſical ſcheme in his head, would come back with her, after the execution of it, ſhe beheld him preceding the chairmen without troubling him with any interrogatories; not in the leaſt fuppofing, indeed, that ſo fine a bird was flown from her cage, never to return to it; or that a man of his caſt ſhould ever have a thought of reſtoring it, in all its original innocence, to thoſe diſconſolate parents from whom it was inhumanly decoyed. It was near midnight when he handed Miſs Colby into his own houſe. His ſiſters were juſt come from a rout: they were both