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a very worthy good-natur’d man, and regarding the true intereſt and happineſs of his daughter more than the ſatisfying his own pride, ambition, or obſtinacy, he was prevailed on to forgive her, and to receive her and her huſband into his houſe, as his children, notwithſtanding the oppoſition of the old aunt, who declared ſhe would never forgive the wanton ſlut, and immediately quitted the houſe, as ſoon as the young couple were admitted into it.
The Doctor and his wife lived together above a fortnight, without the leaſt doubt conceived either by the wife, or by any other perſon of the Doctor’s being what he appeared; till one evening the Doctor having drank a little too much punch, ſlept ſomewhat longer than uſual, and when he waked, he found his wife in tears, who aſked her huſband, amidſt many ſobs, how he could be ſo barbarous to have taken ſuch advantage of her ignorance and innocence, and to ruin her in ſuch a manner? The Doctor being ſurprized and ſcarce awake, aſked her what he had done. Done, ſays ſhe, have you not married me a poor young girl, when you know, you have not you have not what you ought to have. I always thought indeed your ſhape was ſomething odd, and have often wondred that you had not the leaſt bit of beard; but I thought you had been a man for all that, or I am ſure I would not have been ſo wicked to marry you for the world. The Doctor endeavoured to pacify her, by every kind of promiſe, and telling her ſhe would have all the pleaſures of marriage without the inconveniences. No, no, ſaid ſhe, you ſhall not perſuade me to that, nor will I be guilty of ſo much wickedneſs on any account. I will tell my Papa of you as ſoon as I am up; for you are no huſband of mine, nor will I ever
