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( 15 ) Her parents were ſtarted at this and not knowing what could be the occaſion of ſo ſudden an alteration in a perſon who had profeſſed ſuch love to their daughter, followed him into a private room, to be informed of the reaſon of his diſcontent, and on found the occasion of it; whereupon calling his daughter aſide, he told her what German had ſuggeſted. To which ſhe modeſtly eplied, ſeeing the gentieman had ſaved er life, when others had failed, ſhe hought, ſhe could do no leſs in requital an to give him her love, and was relved if ever ſhe married to be his wife. his ſtartled the old man more and more nd Beateman miſtruſting what had hapned, came in the interm, and being manded by her father, if he made love his daughter, boldly owned it: deſing his conſent to have her in marriage.

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