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be ashamed of her neither: she is as clever a girl as ever whirled a mop, and as honest a girl too; and that is more than can be said for many a one that carries her head higher.

Heaven and earth, Amaryllis! are your married to Mrs. Dolly?

Dorothea is a very good girl, Mr. Worshipton.

Yes, yes! I see 'tis even so. Ha! ha! ha! (laughing violently for a long time, till he is obliged to hold both his sides.) This is excellent! this is admirable! I thank thee Amaryllis! thou hast been playing the fool as well as myself. Give me thy hand, man.—Ha! ha! ha!

No, good nephew, moderate your laughter a little: Amaryllis has been playing the fool in a very different way from you; for he has married his bride without expecting one farthing with her, and learns on returning from church, as our good landlady has been informing me, that an uncle of hers