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 cept at his own Houe, and Sentence of Water-Gruel was paed upon him.

Among the good Company which had attended in the Hall during the Bone-etting, Mrs. Honour was one; who being ummoned to her Mitres as oon as it was over, and aked by her how the young Gentleman did, preently launched into extravagant Praies on the Magnimity, as he called it, of his Behaviour, which, he aid, ‘was o charming in o pretty a Creature.’ She then burt forth into much warmer Encomiums on the Beauty of his Peron; enumerating many Particulars, and ending with the Whitenes of his Skin.

This Dicoure had an Effect on Sophia’s Countenance, which would not perhaps have ecaped the Obervance of the agacious Waiting-woman, had he once looked her Mitres in the Face, all the Time he was peaking; but as a Looking-glas, which was mot commodiouly placed oppoite to her, gave her an Opportunity of urveying thoe Features, in which, of all others, he took mot Delight, o he had not once removed her Eyes from that amiable Object during her whole Speech.