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 I promie you I’ll forgive you; ‘Will you,’ cries Wetern, ‘D—n me, if I will; if he does thee the leat Michief, d—n me, if I don’t ha’ the Heart’s Blood o’un out.’ The Surgeon aented to bleed her upon thee Conditions, and then proceeded to his Operation, which he performed with as much Dexterity as he had promied; and with as much Quicknes: For he took but little Blood from her, aying, it was much afer to bleed again and again, than to take away too much at once.

Sophia, when her Arm was bound up, retired: For he was not willing (nor was it, perhaps, trictly decent) to be preent at the Operation on Jones. Indeed one Objection which he had to Bleeding, (tho’ he did not make it) was the Delay which it would occaion to dreing the broken Bone. For Wetern, when Sophia was concerned, had no Conideration, but for her; and as for Jones himelf, he ‘at like Patience on a Monument miling at Grief.’ To ay the Truth, when he aw the Blood pringing from the lovely Arm of Sophia, he carce thought of what had happened to himelf.