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Ch. 9.
a Foundling.
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ther,’ cries Molly, ‘you yourſelf was brough to-bed of Siſter there within a Week after you was married.’ ‘Yes, Huſſy,’ anſwered the enraged Mother, ‘ſo I was, and what was the mighty Matter of that? I was made an honeſt Woman then; and if you was to be made an honeſt Woman, I ſhould not be angry; but you muſt have to doing with a Gentleman, you naſty Slut, you will have a Baſtard, Huſſy, you will; and that I defy any one to ſay of me.’

In this Situation Black George found his Family, when he came home for the Purpoſe before mentioned. As his Wife and three Daughters were all of them talking together, and moſt of them crying, it was ſome time before he could get an Opportunity of being heard; but as ſoon as ſuch an Interval occurred, he acquainted the Company with what Sophia had ſaid to him.

Goody Seagrim then began to revile her Daughter afreſh. ‘Here,’ ſays ſhe, ‘you have brought us into a fine Quandary indeed. What will Madam ſay to that big Belly? Oh that ever I ſhould live to ſee this Day.’

Molly