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 At thee Words Mrs. Bridget dicompoed her Features with a Smile; (a Thing very unuual to her.) Not that I would have my Reader imagine, that this was one of thoe wanton Smiles, which Homer would have you conceive came from Venus, when he calls her the laughter-loving Goddes; nor was it one of thoe Smiles, which Lady Seraphina hoots from the Stage-Box, and which Venus would quit her Immortality to be able to equal. No, this was rather one of thoe Smiles, which might be uppoed to have come from the dimpled Cheeks of the augut Tyiphone, or from one of the Mies her Siters.

With uch a Smile then, and with a Voice, weet as the Evening Breeze of Boreas in the pleaant Month of November, Mrs. Bridget gently reproved the Curioity of Mrs. Deborah, a Vice with which it eems the latter was too much tainted, and which the former inveighed againt with great Bitternes, adding ‘that among all her Faults, he thanked Heaven, her Enemies could not accue her of prying into the Affairs of other People.’

She then proceeded to commend the Honour and Spirit with which Jenny had acted.