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THE MAN OF FEELING. ics
<£ He flarted and turned pale when he
faw me.; but recovered himfelf iniime
enough to make many new. proteftauons
of regard, and beg me to make myfcif
eafy under a difappointment which was
equally afflt&ing to liim. He procured
me lodgings, where 1 Hept, or rather en¬
deavoured to deep, for that night. Next
morning I faw him again ; he then mildr
]y obferved on the imprudence of my pre¬
cipitate flight from the countr y, and pro,
pofed my removing to lodgings at another
end of the town, to elude the fearc'h of
my father, till hefhould fall on fome me¬
thod ofexcufingmy condud to him, and
reconciling him to my return. We took
a hackney coach, and drove to the houfe
he mentioned.
It was fituated in a dirty lane, fur,
niflied with a raudry affedation of finery,
with fome old family pidures hanging on
\yalip which their own cobwebs would
have