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 Cafe at preent, and in les than a Month the Captain and his Lady were Man and Wife.

The great Concern now was to break the Matter to Mr. Allworthy, and this was undertaken by the Doctor.

One Day then as Allworthy was walking in his Garden, the Doctor came to him, and with great Gravity of Apect, and all the Concern which he could poffibly affect in his Countenance, aid, ‘I am come, Sir, to impart an Affair to you of the utmot Conequence; but how hall I mention to you, almot ditracts me to think of!’ He then launched forth into the mot bitter Invectives both againt Men and Women; accuing the former of having no Attachment but to their Interet, and the latter of being o addicted to vicious Inclinations, that they could never be afely truted with one of the other Sex; ‘Could I, aid he, Sir, have upected, that a Lady of uch Prudence, uch Judgment, uch Learning, hould indulge o indicreet a Paion; or could I have imagined that my Brother—why do I call him o? He is no longer a Brother of mine.—’