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 ern, who had been much alarmed by meeting his Daughter’s Hore without its Rider, and was now overjoyed to find her unhurt, cried out, ‘I am glad it is no wore, if Tom hath broken his Arm, we will get a Joiner to mend un again.’

The Squire alighted form his Hore, and proceeded to his Houe on foot, with his Daughter and Jones. An impartial Spectator, who had met them on the Way, would, on viewing their everal Countenances, have concluded Sophia alone to have been the Object of Compaion: For as to Jones, he exulted in having probably aved the Life of the young Lady, at the Price only of a broken Bone; and Mr. Wetern, though he was not unconcerned at the Accident which had befallen Jones, was, however, delighted in a much higher Degree with the fortunate Ecape of his Daughter.

The Generoity of Sophia’s Temper contrued this Behaviour of Jones into great Bravery; and it made a deep Impreion on her Heart: For certain it is, that there is no one Quality which o generally recommends Men to Women as this; proceeding, if we believe the common Opinion, from that na-