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 Molly anwered with great Spirit, ‘And what is this mighty Place which you have got for me, Father?’ (for he had not well undertood the Phrae ued by Sophia of being about her Peron) ‘I uppoe it is to be under the Cook; but I han’t wah Dihes for any Body. My Gentleman will provide better for me. See what he hath given me this Afternoon; he hath promied I hall never want Money; and you han’t want Money neither, Mother, if you will hold your Tongue, and know when you are well.’ And o aying, he pulled out everal Guineas, and gave her Mother one of them.

The good Woman no ooner felt the Gold within her Palm, than her Temper began (uch is the Efficacy of that Panacea) to be mollified. ‘Why Huband,’ ays he, ‘would any but uch a Blockhead as you not have enquired what Place this was before he had accepted it! Perhaps, as Molly ays, it may be in the Kitchin, and truly I don’t care my Daughter hould be a Scullion Wench: For poor as I am, I am a Gentlewoman. And thof I was obliged, as my Father, who