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 wicked Wills of us, how often have you worn you would never forake me? And can you be uch a perjury Man after all? What ignifies all the Riches in the World to me without you, now you have gained my Heart, o you have—you have—? WHy do you mention another Man to me? I can never love any other Man as long as I live. All other Men are nothing to me. If the greatet Squire in all the Country would come a uiting to me to-morrow, I would not give my Company to him. No, I hall always hate and depie the whole Sex for your Sake—’

She was proceeding thus, when an Accident put a Stop to her Tongue, before it had run out half its Career. The Room, or rather Garret, in which Molly lay, being up one Pair of Stairs, that is to ay, at the Top of the Houe, was of a loping Figure, reembling the great Delta of the Greeks. The Englih Reader may, perhaps, form a better Idea of it, by being told, that it was impoible to tand upright any where but in the Middle. Now, as this Room wanted the Conveniency of a Cloet, Molly had, to upply that Defect, nailed up an old Rug againt the Rafters of the Houe, which encloed a little Hole