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 of whom he maintained o contant a Jealouy, that he durt hardly peak to one Woman in the Parih; for the leat Degree of Civility, or even Correpondence with any Female, was ure to bring his Wife upon her Back, and his own.

In order to guard herelf againt matrimonial Injuries in her own Houe, as he kept one Maid Servant, he always took Care to chue her out of that Order of Females, whoe Faces are taken as a Kind of Security for their Virtue; of which Number Jenny Jones, as the Reader hath been before informed, was one.

As the Face of this young Woman might be called pretty good Security of the before-mentioned Kind, and as her Behaviour had been always extremely modet; which is the certain Conequence of Undertanding in Women; he had paed above four Years at Mr. Partridge’s, (for that was the Schoolmater’s Name) without creating the leat Supicion in her Mitres. Nay, he had been treated with uncommon Kindnes, and her Mitres had permitted Mr. Partridge to give her thoe Intructions, which have been before commemorated.