nion, observing withal, that on the first impressions of my figure, much might depend; and, as they well judged, the prospect of exchanging my country-cloaths for London finery, made the clause of confinement digest perfectly well with me. But the truth was, Mrs. Brown did not care that I should be seen or talked to by any, either of her customers, or her Does (as they call'd the girls provided for them), till she had secured a good market for my maidenhead, which I had at least all the appearances of having brought into her ladyship's service.
To slip over minuties of no importance to the main of my story, I pass the interval to bed-time, in which I was more and more pleas'd with the views that open'd to me of an easy service under these good people: and after supper, being shew'd up to bed, Miss Phœbe, who observed a kind of reluctance in me to strip, and go to bed in my shift before her, now the maid was withdrawn, came up to me, and beginning with unpinning my hand-
