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 and who had no other Quarrel to her Maid, anwered boldly, She did not know any Obligation the Parih had to her on that Account, for he believed Jenny had. carce left her Equal behind her.

‘No, truly, aid the Goip, I hope not, tho’ I fancy we have Sluts enow too. Then you have not heard, it eems, that he hath been brought to bed of two Batards; but as they are not born here, my Huband, and the other Overeer, ays we hall not be obliged to keep them.’

‘Two Batards!’ anwered Mrs. Partridge hatily, ‘you urprize me. I don’t know whether we mut keep them; but I am ure they mut have been begotten here, for the Wench hath not been nine Months gone away.’

Nothing can be o quick and udden as the Operations of the Mind, epecially when Hope, or Fear; or Jealouy to which the two others are but Journeymen, et it to work. It occurred inlantly to her, that Jenny had carce ever been out of her own Houe, while he lived with her. The leaning over the Chair, the udden tarting up, the Latin, the Smile, and many other Things