Marry, come up! I aſſure you, my dirty Couſin! thof his Skin be ſo white, and to be ſure, it is the moſt whiteſt that ever was ſeen, I am a Chriſtian as well as he, and no-body can ſay that I am baſe born, my grand-father was a Clergyman[1], and would have been very angry, I believe, to have thought any of his Family ſhould have taken up with Molly Seagrim’s dirty Leavings.’
Perhaps Sophia might have ſuffered her Maid to run on in this Manner, from wanting ſufficient Spirits to ſtop her Tongue, which the Reader may probably conjecture was no very eaſy Taſk: For, certainly there were ſome Paſſages in her Speech, which were far from being agreeable to the Lady. However, ſhe now checked the Torrent, as there ſeemed no End of its Flowing. ‘I wonder,’ ſays ſhe, ‘at your Aſſurance in daring to talk thus of one of my Father’s Friends. As to the Wench, I order you never to mention
- ↑ This is the ſecond Perſon of low Condition whom we have recorded in this Hiſtory, to have ſprung from the Clergy. It is to be hoped ſuch Inſtances will, in future Ages, when ſome Proviſion is made for the Families of the inferior Clergy, appear ſtranger than they can be thought at preſent.
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