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 ſhe'll come to by and by, when ſhe's a little a cool: if ſhe would but have had patience a deal to hear,"——— At this moment Sophy came into the room. “O Sophy, I am glad you are come——you are not ſo hot and haſty as your ſiſter, but will hear reaſon——The caſe is this; I found this young lady in diſtreſs, and have ſaved her from deſtruction: that's the ſum total of the matter: ſhe will tell you the particulars herſelf———Only obſerve, ſhe muſt ſleep here tonight: we ſhall bruſh off to together tomorrow morning; and ſo liſten very attentively to her ſtory, while I order Tom to have his cattle in a good condition——you won't like her the worſe for it." Frank then quited the room in his uſual hurrying way. When he was gone, Sophy, who was inſenſibly prejudiced in favour of Maria at firſt ſight, and of too charitable a diſpoſition to condemn any body, eſpecially one of her own ſex, in a ſituation apparently diſtreſsful, unheard, told her, with much good humour and politeneſs, that ſhe ſhould be very glad to be acquainted with the accident which had obliged her to put herſelf under her brother's protection. Sophy, having too good an opinion of her brother, though ſhe diſapproved of his lawleſs purſuits as much as her outragouſly virtuous ſiſter did, to imagine that he