pon them all! they have
turned the head of the most charming woman in the world!

Ah! Sir, Sir, replied Miss Rawlins, whatever be the fault of her
relations, all is not as it should be between you and her. 'Tis plain
she does not think herself married: 'tis plain she does not: and if you
have any value for the poor lady, and would not totally deprive her of
her senses, you had better withdraw, and leave to time and cooler
consideration the event in your favour.

She will compel me to this at last, I fear, Miss Rawlins; I fear she
will; and then we are both undone: for I cannot live without her; she
knows it too well: and she has not a friend who will look upon her: this
also she knows. Our marriage, when her uncle's friend comes, will be
proved incontestably. But I am ashamed to think I have given her room
to believe it no marriage: that's what she harps upon!

Well, 'tis a strange case, a very strange one, said Miss Rawlins; and was
going to say further, when the angry beauty, coming towards the door,
said, Mrs. Moore, I beg a word with you. And they both stepped into the
dining-room.

I saw her just before put a parcel into her pocket; and followed them
out, for fear she should slip away; and stepping to the stairs, that she
might not go by me, Will., cried I, aloud [though I knew he was not near]
--Pray, child, to a maid, who answered, call either of my servants to me.

She then came up to me with a wrathful countenance: do you call your
servant, Sir, to hinder me, between you, from going where I please?

Don't, my dearest life, misinterpret every thing I do. Can you think me
so mean and unworthy as to employ a servant to constrain you?--I call him
to send to the public-houses, or inns in this town, to inquire after
Captain Tomlinson, who may have alighted at some one of them, and be now,
perhaps, needlessly adjusting his dress; and I would have him come, were
he to be without clothes, God forgive me! for I am stabbed to the heart
by your cruelty.

Answer was returned, that neither of my servants was in the way.

Not in the way, said I!--Whither can the dogs be gone?

O Sir! with a scornful air; not far, I'll warrant. One of them was under
the window just now; according to order, I suppose, to watch my steps--
but I will do what I please, and go where I please; and that to your
face.

God forbid, that I should hinder you in any thing that you may do with
safety to yourself!

Now I verily believe th