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208: THE MAH' OF THE WORLD.
it was only a worthy gentleman of her
acquaintance, who had overtaken a young
girl, a foundling he had bred up, that
had ftolen a fum of money from his
houfe, and run away with one of his foot¬
men. At the word foundling, I felt a kind
of fomething I cannot defcribe, and I was
terrified when I overheard fome part of
your difcourfe, and guefTed what your in¬
tentions were; I rofe, therefore, in fpite
of the landlady, and had got thus far
drefled, when we heard the door burft
open, and prefently a noife of fighting
above flairs. Upon this we ran up toge¬
ther, and to what has happened fince,
this company has been witnefs.”