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 get into one as soon as possiblethat I need not fear getting onethere were more places than parish-churchesthat she advised me to go to an intelligence officethat if she heard of any thing stirring, she would find me out and let me knowthat in the meantime, I should take a private lodging, and acquaint her where to send to methat she wish'd me good luck,and hoped I should always have the grace to keep myself honest, and not bring a disgrace on my parentage:" with this, she took her leave of me, and left me, as it were, on my own hands, full as lightly as I had been put into hers.

Left thus alone, absolutely destitute and friendless, I began then to feel most bitterly the severity of this separation, the scene of which had passed in a little room in the inn; and no sooner was her back turned, but the affliction I felt at my helpless strange circumstances, burst out into a flood of tears, which finitely