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 simpleton, who was perfectly new to life, and who took every word she said, in the very sense she laid out for me to take it; but she readily saw what a penetration she had to deal with, and measured me very rightly in her manner of whistling to me, so as to make me pleased with my cage, and blind to the wires.

In the midst of these false explanations of the nature of my future service, we were rung for down again, and I was reintroduced into the same parlour, where there was a table laid with three covers; and my mistress had now got with her one of her favourite girls, a notable manager of her house, and whose business it was to prepare and break such young Fillies as I was to the mounting-block: and she was accordingly, in that view, allotted me for a bed-fellow; and, to give her the more authority, she had the title of cousin confer'd on her by the venerable president of this college.

Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs.