by deſiring her Father’s Leave to play to him; a Requeſt which he never refuſed.
The Countenance of Sophia had undergone more than one Change during the foregoing Speeches; and probably ſhe imputed the paſſionate Reſentment which Jones had expreſſed againſt the Mare to a different Motive from that which her Father had derived it. Her Spirits were at this Time in a viſible Flutter; and ſhe played ſo intolerably ill, that had not Weſtern ſoon fallen aſleep, he muſt have remarked it. Jones, however, who was ſufficiently awake, and was not without an Ear any more than without Eyes, made ſome Obſervations; which being joined to all which the Reader may remember to have paſſed formerly, gave him pretty ſtrong Aſſurances, when he came to reflect on the whole, that all was not well in the tender Boſom of Sophia. An Opinion which many young Gentlemen will, I doubt not, extremely wonder at his not having been well confirmed in long ago. To confeſs the Truth, he had rather too much Diffidence in himſelf, and was not forward enough in ſeeing the Advances of a young Lady; a Misfortune which can only be cured by that early Town Education, which is at preſent ſo generally in Faſhion.
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