ſelf; yet were they too plauſible to be abſolutely and haſtily rejected, when laid before his Eyes by another. Indeed what Square had ſaid ſunk very deeply into his Mind, and the Uneaſineſs which it there created was very viſible to the other; though the good Man would not acknowledge this, but made a very ſlight Anſwer, and forcibly drove off the Diſourſe to ſome other Subject. It was well, perhaps, for poor Tom, that no ſuch Suggeſtions had been made before he was pardoned; for they certainly ſtamped in the Mind of Allworthy the firſt bad Impreſſion concerning Jones.
CHAP. XII.
Containing much clearer Matters; but which flow from the ſame Fountain with thoſe in the preceding Chapter.
The Reader will be pleaſed, I believe, to return with me to Sophia. She paſſed the Night, after we ſaw her laſt, in no very agreeable Manner. Sleep befriended her but little, and Dreams leſs. In the Morning, when Mrs. Honour her Maid attended her, at the uſual Hour, ſhe was found already up and dreſt.
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