Molly anſwered with great Spirit, ‘And what is this mighty Place which you have got for me, Father?’ (for he had not well underſtood the Phraſe uſed by Sophia of being about her Perſon) ‘I ſuppoſe it is to be under the Cook; but I ſhan’t waſh Diſhes for any Body. My Gentleman will provide better for me. See what he hath given me this Afternoon; he hath promiſed I ſhall never want Money; and you ſhan’t want Money neither, Mother, if you will hold your Tongue, and know when you are well.’ And ſo ſaying, ſhe pulled out ſeveral Guineas, and gave her Mother one of them.
The good Woman no ſooner felt the Gold within her Palm, than her Temper began (ſuch is the Efficacy of that Panacea) to be mollified. ‘Why Huſband,’ ſays ſhe, ‘would any but ſuch a Blockhead as you not have enquired what Place this was before he had accepted it! Perhaps, as Molly ſays, it may be in the Kitchin, and truly I don’t care my Daughter ſhould be a Scullion Wench: For poor as I am, I am a Gentlewoman. And thof I was obliged, as my Father, who‘was
