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24 and with many professions of charitable dispositions, and thanks for the happiness she had derived from attending his discourses, she put the money into his hand, and took her leave. Mr Whitfield, in the mean time, putting the money into his pocket without looking at it, made proper acknowledgments to her, and waited on her to the door,

He was no sooner, however, alone, than he took it out to examine the contents, and finding it only copper— and eomparingcomparing [sic] the sum with the appearance of the person who gave it, he instantly imagined it must have been given with intention to affront him; and with this prepossession on his mind, he hastily opened the door, and called the ladybaekback [sic], who had not as yet got to the bottom of the stairs. This summons she instantly obeyed. On her return, Mr Whitfield, assuming a grave tone and stern manner, told her, that he did not expeetexpect [sic] she could have presumed to offer to affront him: and, holding out the halfpence, asked her what she could mean by offering such a paltry compliment as that? The paper, and recollecting that she had often heard him ealledcalled [sic] a cheat and impostor, immediately suspected that he himself had put the halfpence in place of the gold, and made use of that pretext to extort more from her, fell upon him bloodily, telling him she had often heard him ealledcalled [sic] a swindler and a rascal, but until now she had never believed it. She was eertaincertain [sic] she had given him ten red guineas out of her hands, and now he pretended he had got only as many halfpence; nor did she lcaveleave [sic] him until she had given him a very full eomplementcomplement [sic] of abuse. She then went home in a great hurry; and had a much better opinion of her husband’s diseernmentdiscernment [sic] and sagacity ever afterwards. He kept the secret; and until her dying day, she made a good wife to him; nor ever went after field-preachers of any sort.