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 Jenny offered to make Protetations of her Innocence; but the Tempet was too high for her to be heard. She then betook herelf to the Buines of Packing, for which a mall Quantity of brown Paper ufficed; and, having received her mall Pittance of Wages, he returned home.

The Schoolmater and his Conort pas’d their Time unpleaantly enough that Evening; but omething or other happened before the next Morning, which a little abated the Fury of Mrs. Partridge; and he at length admitted her Huband to make his Excues. To which he gave the readier Belief, as he had, intead of deiring her to recall Jenny, profeed a Satisfaction in her being dimied, aying, She was grown of little Ue as a Servant, pending all her Time in reading, and was become, moreover, very pert and obtinate: For indeed he and her Mater had lately had frequent Diputes in Literature; in which, as hath been aid, he was become greatly his Superior, This, however, he would by no means allow; and, as he called her periting in the Right, Obtinacy, he began to hate her with no mall Inveteracy.