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 no quarter nor remission from him: He piqu'd himself, as he told me, on doing the honours of my new apartment.

The morning being pretty well advanc'd, we got to breakfast: and the ice now broke, my heart, no longer engross'd by love, began to take ease, and to please itself with such trifles as Mr. H's liberal liking led him to make his court to the usual vanity of our sex. Silks, laces, ear-rings, pearl-necklace, gold watch, in short all the trinkets and articles of dress were lavishly heap'd upon me, the sense of which, if it did not create returns of love, forc'd a kind of grateful fondness something like love, a distinction it would be spoiling the pleasure of nine tenths of the keepers in the town to make, and is I suppose the very good reason why so few of them ever do make it.

I was now establish'd the kept mistress, in form, well lodg'd, with a very sufficient allowance, and lighted up with all the lustre of dress.

Mr.