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 narrow circumſtances, ſeemed to be a proper neighbour for us; and, indeed, her company was very acceptable. My mother liked her as well as I did; and even my father was ſo much entertained with her converſation, that he encouraged an intimacy. "When we came intimate, Mrs Ditton (that was her name) acquainted us with her hiſtory; and by ſo doing placed herſelf in be an amiable, but in a pitiable light: far advanced as ſhe was in life, ſhe had a great deal of vivacity, and the politeneſs of her behaviour ſufficiently confirmed all that ſhe had communicated relating to the ſphere in which ſhe had figured. "In about ſix weeks after the commencement of our acquaintance, Mrs Ditton told my mother, that if ſhe would truſt me with her, ſhe ſhould be exceedingly glad of my company to London, as ſhe was going thither on particular buſineſs; adding, that ſhe ſhould return to the farm (ſo ſhe called her little dwelling), when her buſineſs was finiſhed. My mother, having a high opinion of her new friend's character from the propriety of her carriage, was not in the leaſt unwilling to put me under her protection; & my father having the ſame ſentiments in her savour, as chearfully expreſſed his content.