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 in respect to his experienced generosity on such occasions, proposed to offer the perusal of that trinket of mine, which bears so great an imaginary value; and his lordship being expected in town in less than a fortnight, Mrs. Brown judged I would be entirely renewed in beauty, and freshness, by that time, and afford her the chance of a better bargain than she had driven with Mr. Crofts.

In the mean time, I was so thoroughly, as they call it, brought over, so tame to their whistle, that, had my cage-door been set open, I had no idea that I ought to fly anywhere, sooner than stay where I was; nor had I the least sense of regretting my condition, but waited very quietly for whatever Mrs. Brown should order concerning me, who on her side, by herself, and her agents, took more than the necessary precautions to lull and lay asleep all just reflexions on my destination.

Preachments of morality over the left shoulder, a life of joy painted in the gayest