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iH THE man of feeling.
if I did not foon comply with her defires,
I fhoud pay her every farthing I owed, or
rot in a gaol for life. I trembled at the
thought; ftill, however, I refined her im-.
portunities, and die put her threats in
execution. I was conveyed to prifon,
weak from my condition, weaker from
that ftruggle of grief and mifery which
for fome time! had fuffered. A mifcar-«
riage was the confequence,
u Amidft all the horrors of fnch a date,
furrounded with wretches callous to feel¬
ing, lod alike to humanity and to fhame,
think, Mr. Harley, think what I endured:
nor wonder that I at lad yielded to the
folicitations of that mifcreant I had feen
at herboufe, and funk to the proftitution
which he offered. But that was happi-
nefs compared to what I have fuffered
fince. He foon abandoned me to the
common ufe of the town, and I was cafl
among thofe miferable beings in whofe fo-
ciety I have fince remained.