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 were over, he left the house his father lived in, and returned again to London, where he purchased a handsome epipag, commenced the fine gentleman, frequented the balls, masquerades, playhouses, rou's, drums, &c. &c. and cut as good a figure as the belt of them. But here let us leave him for a while, and turn our eyes to a worthier object.

In the same space of time which Mr. Froward took to squander away a good estate, Mr Thoroughgood had by his own industry, and from a small fortune, gained one considerably better, and was in a fair way of encreasing it. The former made pleasure his business, but the latter made business his pleasure, and was rewarded accordingly. The alderman, who by his own application, and Mr. Thoroughgood's assiduity, was was grown very rich, had no child now living but one daughter, of whom both he and his lady were extremely fond; they had nothing so much at heart, as to see her weel settled in the world, She had many suitors, but resolved to encourage