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 Whether the inatiable Curioity of this good Woman had carried her on to that Buines, or whether he did it to confirm herelf in the good Graces of Mrs. Blifil, who, notwithtanding her outward Behaviour to the Foundling, frequently abued the Infant in private, and her Brother too for his Fondnes to it, I will not determine; but he had now, as he conceived, fully detected the Father of the Foundling.

Now as this was a Dicovery of great Conequence, it may be neceary to trace it from the Fountain-head. We hall therefore very minutely lay open thoe previous Matters by which it was produced; and for that Purpoe, we hall be obliged to reveal all the Secrets of a little Family, with which my Reader is at preent entirely unacquainted; and of which the Oeconomy was o rare and extraordinary, that I fear it will hock the utmot Credulity of many married Perons.