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 it would be impertinent to relate it. Indeed it was not difficult to reconcile to the Rule of Right, an Action which it would have been impoible to deduce from the Rule of Wrong.  Containing an Incident of a more heinous Kind, with the Comments of Thwackum and Square.

T hath been oberved by ome Man of much greater Reputation for Widom than myelf, that Misfortunes eldom come ingle. An Intance of this may, I believe, be een in thoe Gentlemen who have the Misfortune to have any of their Rogueries detected: For here Dicovery eldom tops till the whole is come out. Thus it happened to poor Tom, who was no ooner pardoned for elling the Hore, than he was dicovered to have ome time before old a fine Bible which Mr. Allworthy gave him, the Money ariing from which Sale he had diposed in the ame Manner. This Bible Mater Blifil had purchaed, thought he had already uch another of his own, partly out of Repect for the Book, and partly out of