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 battle with Thwackum?—Do not you remember Roderic Random and Nannette?" "Why, Charlotte," said Maria, half smiling, "you have stored your memory with the best passages." "Poogh," said Charlotte, "one cannot help remembering what one reads." "But," said Maria, "the cases are not in point; these were all accidents, and might be forgiven; the present is certainly an assignation,—and an assignation, to keep which, he leaves me:" here she again burst into tears. Charlotte wishing to comfort her friend, proposed to stay with her all night, which was thankfully accepted.

Meanwhile, our hero repaired to the Steyne, and there met two females; one of whom he found to be the Countess of Cockatrice, and accompanied her to the house of a fat woman that sold toys, in the adjacent part of North-street, while