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 Wench himelf. Doth not all the Country know whoe Son Tom is? You mut talk to another Peron in that Manner. I remember Allworthy at College.’

‘I thought,’ aid the Paron, ‘he had never been at the Univerity.’

‘Yes, yes, he was,’ ays the Squire, ‘and many a Wench have we two had together. As errant a Whoremater as any within five Miles o’un. No, no. It will do’n no Harm with he, aure yourelf; nor with any Body ele. Ak Sophy there—You have not the wore Opinion of a young Fellow for getting a Batard, have you, Girl? No, no, the Women will like un the better for’t.’

This was a cruel Quetion to poor Sophia. She had oberved Tom’s Colour change at the Paron’s Story; and that, with his haty and abrupt Departure, gave her ufficient Reaon to think her Father’s Supicions not groundles. Her Heart now, at once, dicovered the great Secret to her, which it had been o long dicloing by little and little; and he found herelf highly intereted in this Matter. In uch a Situation, her Father’s malapert Quetion