wicked Wills of us, how often have you ſworn you would never forſake me? And can you be ſuch a perjury Man after all? What ſignifies all the Riches in the World to me without you, now you have gained my Heart, ſo you have—you have—? WHy do you mention another Man to me? I can never love any other Man as long as I live. All other Men are nothing to me. If the greateſt Squire in all the Country would come a ſuiting to me to-morrow, I would not give my Company to him. No, I ſhall always hate and deſpiſe the whole Sex for your Sake—’
She was proceeding thus, when an Accident put a Stop to her Tongue, before it had run out half its Career. The Room, or rather Garret, in which Molly lay, being up one Pair of Stairs, that is to ſay, at the Top of the Houſe, was of a ſloping Figure, reſembling the great Delta of the Greeks. The Engliſh Reader may, perhaps, form a better Idea of it, by being told, that it was impoſſible to ſtand upright any where but in the Middle. Now, as this Room wanted the Conveniency of a Cloſet, Molly had, to ſupply that Defect, nailed up an old Rug againſt the Rafters of the Houſe, which encloſed a little Holewhere
