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136 THE MAN OF FEELING.
CHAP. XXXI1L
He leaves London.—Char afters in a ftage~.
coach.
TH E company in the ftage- coach con«
fitted of a grocer and his wife, who
were going to pay a viftt to fome of thctt
country friends \ a young officer, who
took this way of marching to quarters j
a middle-aged gentlewoman, who had
been hired as a houfekeeper to fome fa-
nvly in the country ; and an elderly welK
looking man, with a remarkably old-fa-
Ihioned periwig.;
Harley, upon entering, difcovered but
one vacant fear, next the grocer’s wife,
which, from his natural fhynefs of tern-
pen he made no fcruple to occupy*
hough he knew that being driven back¬
wards difagreed with him.
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