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 by deiring her Father’s Leave to play to him; a Requet which he never refued.

The Countenance of Sophia had undergone more than one Change during the foregoing Speeches; and probably he imputed the paionate Reentment which Jones had expreed againt the Mare to a different Motive from that which her Father had derived it. Her Spirits were at this Time in a viible Flutter; and he played o intolerably ill, that had not Wetern oon fallen aleep, he mut have remarked it. Jones, however, who was ufficiently awake, and was not without an Ear any more than without Eyes, made ome Obervations; which being joined to all which the Reader may remember to have paed formerly, gave him pretty trong Aurances, when he came to reflect on the whole, that all was not well in the tender Boom of Sophia. An Opinion which many young Gentlemen will, I doubt not, extremely wonder at his not having been well confirmed in long ago. To confes the Truth, he had rather too much Diffidence in himelf, and was not forward enough in eeing the Advances of a young Lady; a Misfortune which can only be cured by that early Town Education, which is at preent o generally in Fahion.