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 Whore, while they envied her her Lover and her Finery, and would have been themelves gladt o have purchaed thee at the ame Rate. The Ruin, therefore, of the poor Girl mut, he foreaw, unavoidably attend his deerting her; and this Thought tung him to the Soul. Poverty and Ditres eemed to him to give none a Right of aggravating thoe Misfortunes. The Meannes of her Condition did not repreent her Miery as of little Conequence in his Eyes, nor did it appear to jutify, or even to palliate, his Guilt, in bringing that Miery upon her. But why do I mention Jutification; his own Heart would not uffer him to detroy a human Creature, who, he thought, loved him, and had to that Love acrificed her Innocence. His own good Heart pleaded her Caue; not as a cold venal Advocate; but as one intereted in the Event, and which mut itelf deeply hare in all the Agonies its Owner brought on another.

When this cunning Advocate had ufficiently raied the Pity of Jones, by painting poor Molly in all the Circumtances of Wretchednes; it artfully called in the Aitance of another Paion, and repreented the Girl in all the amiable Colours of