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 the Mint, where, in a widow's habit I took upon me the name of Mrs. Flanders.

Here I was courted as a mistress by several lewd men, but all these I scorned, and it was my good fortune to marry a gentleman whose state was in Virginia, and whom I deceived by pretending to him I was a greater fortune than I really was. But indeed he proved a very good husband, and