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 long before Jones was able to attend her to the Harpichord, where he would kindly condecend, for Hours together, to charm him with the mot delicious Muic, unles when the Squire thought proper to interrupt her, by initing on Old Sir Simon, or ome other of his favourite Pieces.

Notwithtanding the nicet Guard which Sophia endeavoured to et on her Behaviour, he could not avoid letting ome Appearances now and then lip forth: For Love may again be likened to a Dieae in this, that when it is denied a Vent in one Part, it will certainly break out in another. What her Lips therefore concealed, her Eyes, her Bluhes, and many little involuntary Actions, betrayed.

One Day when Sophia was playing on the Harpichord, and Jones was attending, the Squire came into the Room, crying, ‘There, Tom, I have had a Battle for thee below Stairs with thick Paron Thwackum.—He hath been a telling Allworthy, before my Face, that the broken Bone was a Judgment upon thee. D—n it, ays I, how can that be? Did not he come by it in Defence of a young Woman? A Judgment indeed! Pox, if he never doth any thing