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 for me; I was provoked the other Day when I gave you Warning; but if you have a Deire to tay with me, you hall.’ ‘To be ure, Ma’am,’ anwered Mrs. Honour, ‘I hall never deire to part with your Ladyhip. To be ure, I almot cried my Eyes out when you gave me Warning. It would be very ungrateful in me, to deire to leave your Ladyhip; becaue as why, I hould never get o good a Place again. I am ure I would live and die with your Ladyhip—for, as poor Mr. Jones, aid, happy is the Man—’

Here the Dinner-bell interrupted a Converation which had wrought uch an Effect on Sophia, that he was, perhaps, more obliged to her bleeding in the Morning, than he, at the time, had apprehended he hould be. As to the preent Situation of her Mind, I hall adhere to a Rule of Horace, by not attempting to decribe it, from Depair of Succes. Mot of my Readers will uggest it eaily to themelves, and the few who cannot, would not undertand the Picture, or at leat would deny it to be natural, if ever o well drawn.