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of keeping at such a distance from her father, and treating him with such reserve. But she immediately flew into a passion, and said, that her father had used both her and Mr Mollins extremely ill; and that if Mr Mollins had taken her advice, he would never have spoken to him again, after the vile aspersions he had thrown upon his character, by seeming to doubt whether he was a gentleman. Mr Mollins, she said, despised such base insinuations; and as his friend Lord Dashmore justly observed, he knew too much of the world to be surprised at the mean and vulgar notions of those who knew nothing of life or manners. For her share, she expected to meet with a great deal of envy and ill-nature, and she saw she should not be disappointed.
"My dear sister! how thoughtlessly you speak!" returned I. "Were you married to the greatest lord in Christendom, I should not envy your good luck. But is it not natural, that your father
