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 getting rid of the two cowardly louts, my intention was to drive the carriage deep into the wood: there, without doing the ladies the mallet injury, to open a little emporium for the exchange of the black gown, which, conidering the ervice it had rendered me, was of no trivial value, for the Countes’s pure and trinkets; and then, wihing the company a afe journey, to take a polite farewel.

To ay the truth, ir, my fears from you were the leat of my thoughts. The world is arrived at uch a pitch of infidelity, that one cannot quiet children now-a-days with your name; and if a faint heart, like the Countes’s ervant, or an old woman behind her pinning-wheel, did not now and then talk of you, the world would have long ince lot all remembrance of uch a peronage. I thought whoever choe might be Number-Nip: I am now, indeed, better informed, and find myelf in your power. ‘But,