Poor Seagrim was thunderſtruck at this; for he was no Stranger to the Fault in the Shape of his Daughter. He anſwered, in a ſtammering Voice, ‘That he was afraid Molly would be too aukward to wait on her Ladyſhip, as ſhe had never been at Service.’ ‘No matter for that,’ ſays Sophia, ‘ſhe will ſoon improve. I am pleaſed with the Girl, and am reſolved to try her.’
Black George now repaired to his Wife, on whoſe prudent Council he depended to extricate him out of this Dilemma; but when he came thither, he found his Houſe in ſome Confuſion. So great Envy had this Sack occaſioned, that when Mr. Allworthy and the other Gentry were gone from Church, the Rage, which had hitherto been confined, burſt into an Uproar, and, having vented itſelf at firſt in opprobrious Words, Laughs, Hiſſes, and Geſtured, betook itſelf at laſt to certain miſſile Weapons; which, though from their plaſtic Nature they threatened neither the Loſs of Life or of Limb, were however ſufficiently dreaful to a well-dreſſed Lady. Molly had too much Spirit to bear this Treatment tamely. Having therefore—But hold, as weare
