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 ther that Morning. Thee two began preently to crutinize the Characters of the everal young Girls, who lived in any of thoe Houes, and at lat fixed their tronget Supicion on one Jenny Jones, who they both agreed was the likeliet Peron to have committed this Fact.

This Jenny Jones was no very comely Girl, either in Face or Peron; but Nature had omewhat compenated the Want of Beauty with what is generally more eteemed by thoe Ladies, whoe Judgment is arrived at Years of perfect Maturity; for he had given her a very uncommon Share of Undertanding. This Gift Jenny had a good deal improved by Erudition. She had lived everal Years a Servant with a Schoolmater, who dicovering a great Quicknes of Parts in the Girl, and an extraordinary Deire of learning, (for every leiure Hour he was always found reading in the Books of the Scholars) had the Good-nature, or Folly, which the Reader pleaes to call it, to intruct her o far, that he obtained a very competent Skill in the Latin Language, and was perhaps as good a Scholar as mot of the young Men of Quality of the Age. This Advantage, however, like mot others of an extraordi-