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 had not only in course insisted on a previous sight of the premisses, but also on immediate surrender to him, in case of his agreeing for me; concluding very wisely that such a place as I was in, was of the hottest, to trust the keeping of such a perishable commodity in, as a maidenhead.

The care of dressing, and tricking me out for the market, was then left to Phœbe, who acquitted herself, if not well, at least perfectly to the satisfaction of every thing but my impatience of seeing myself dress'd. When it was over, and I view'd myself in the glass, I was, no doubt, too natural, too artless, to hide my childish joy at the change; a change in the real truth, for much the worse, since I must have much better become the neat easy simplicity of my rustic dress, than the awkward, untoward, taudry finery, that I could not conceal my strangeness to. Phœbe's compliments, however, in which her own share in dressing me was not