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guine temper to miſunderſtand, or conſtrue favourably.
“Sir,
“I was greatly aſtoniſhed at what you put into my hands. Indeed I thought, when I took it, it might have been an Opera ſong, and which for certain reaſons I ſhould think, when your cold is gone, you might ſing as well as Farinelli, from the great reſemblance there is between your perſons. I know not what you mean by encouragement to your hopes; if I could have conceived my innocent freedoms could have been ſo miſrepreſented, I ſhould have been more upon my guard: but you have taught me how to watch my actions for the future, and to preſerve myſelf even from any ſuſpicion of forfeiting the regard I owe to the memory of the beſt of men, by any future choice. The remembrance of that dear perſon makes me incapable of proceeding farther.
And ſo firm was this reſolution, that ſhe would never afterwards admit of the leaſt familiarity with the deſpairing Mrs. Hamilton, but perhaps that deſtiny which is remarked to interpoſe in all matrimonial things, had taken the widow into her protection: for in a few days afterwards, ſhe was married to one Jack Strong, a cadet in an Iriſh regiment.
Our adventurer being thus diſappointed in her love, and what is worſe, her money drawing towards an end, began to have ſome thoughts of returning home, when fortune ſeemed inclined to make her amends for the tricks ſhe had hitherto played her, and accordingly now threw another Miſtreſs in her way, whoſe fortune was much ſupe-
