ern, who had been much alarmed by meeting his Daughter’s Horſe without its Rider, and was now overjoyed to find her unhurt, cried out, ‘I am glad it is no worſe, if Tom hath broken his Arm, we will get a Joiner to mend un again.’
The Squire alighted form his Horſe, and proceeded to his Houſe on foot, with his Daughter and Jones. An impartial Spectator, who had met them on the Way, would, on viewing their ſeveral Countenances, have concluded Sophia alone to have been the Object of Compaſſion: For as to Jones, he exulted in having probably ſaved the Life of the young Lady, at the Price only of a broken Bone; and Mr. Weſtern, though he was not unconcerned at the Accident which had befallen Jones, was, however, delighted in a much higher Degree with the fortunate Eſcape of his Daughter.
The Generoſity of Sophia’s Temper conſtrued this Behaviour of Jones into great Bravery; and it made a deep Impreſſion on her Heart: For certain it is, that there is no one Quality which ſo generally recommends Men to Women as this; proceeding, if we believe the common Opinion, from that na-tural
