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which fhould have crufhed her own !” I
fnatched a knife that lay befide me, and
would have plunged it in my breaft •, but
•the monfter prevented my purpofe, and
fmiling with the grin of barbarous infulr»
“ Madam, faid he, I confefs you are
rather too much in heroics for me : I am
forry we fliould differ about trifles ; but
as I feem fomehow to have offended you>
I would willingly remedy it by taking my
leave. You have been put to fome foolifh
expence in his journey on my account >
allow me to reimburfe you.” So fay¬
ing, he laid a bank-bill, of what amount
I had no patience to fee, upon the table.
Shame, grief, and indignation, choaked
my utterance ; unable to fpeak my wrongs
and una ble to bear them in filence* I fell
in a fwoon at his feet.
“ What happened in the interval I can¬
not tell; but when I came to mylelf, 1
was in the arms of the landlady-, with her
rdece chaffing my temples, and doing all
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