However this be, certain it is that the Accident operated very ſtrongly on Sophia; and, indeed, after much Enquiry into the Matter, I am inclined to believe, that at this very Time, the charming Sophia made no leſs Impreſſion on the Heart of Jones; to ſay Truth, he had for ſome Time become ſenſible of the irreſiſtible Power of her Charms.
CHAP. XIV.
The Arrival of a Surgeon. His Operations, and a long Dialogue between Sophia and her Maid.
When they arrived in Mr. Weſtern’s Hall, Sophia, who had totter’d along with much Difficulty, ſunk down in a Chair; but by the Aſſiſtance of Hartſhorn and Water, ſhe was prevented from fainting away, and had pretty well recovered her Spirits, when the Surgeon, who was ſent for to Jones, appeared. Mr. Weſtern, who imputed theſe Symptoms in her Daughter to her Fall, adviſed her to be preſently blooded by way of Prevention.In
