not long after,
she departed this Life. Her Burial was very handsome and honourable.
Half a Year was now expir'd since her Interment, when the old Counsellor
began to plead his own Cause to young _Philadelphia_, reminding her that
now the Death of _Gracelove_ was out of Question; and that therefore she
was as much at her Liberty to make her own Choice of an Husband as he
was of a Wife; not forgetting, at the same Time, to let her know, that
his Widow, (whoever had the good Fortune to be so) would be worth above
thirty thousand Pounds in ready Money, besides a thousand a Year. But,
above all, he urg'd his dying Lady's last Advice to him, that he would
marry her; and hop'd she would see the Will of the Dead satisfy'd. The
young Lady being broken in Sorrows, and having mortify'd all her
Appetites to the Enjoyments of this World, and not knowing where to meet
with so fair an Overture, tho' at first, in Modesty, she seem'd to
refuse it as too great an Honour, yet yielded to less than a Quarter of
an Hour's Courtship. And the next Sunday marry'd they were, with the
Consent, and to the perfect Satisfaction of, his Daughter, Madam
_Eugenia_; who lov'd _Philadelphia_ sincerely. They kept their
Wedding very nobly for a Month, at their own House in _Great
Lincolns-Inn-Fields_; but the Memory of the old Lady was still so fresh
with the young Lady _Fairlaw_, that she prevail'd with him to remove to
another, more convenient as she fancy'd, in _Covent-Garden_. They had
dwelt there not much more than four Months, e're the good old Gentleman
fell sick and dy'd. Whether it were the Change of an old House for a
new, or an old Wife for a young, is yet uncertain, tho' his Physicians
said, and are still of Opinion, that, doubtless, it was the last. 'Tis
past all Doubt, that she did really mourn for and lament his Death; for
she lov'd him perfectly, and pay'd him all the dutiful respect of a
virtuous Wife, while she liv'd within that State with him; which he
rewarded as I have said before. His Funeral was very sumptuous and
honourable indeed! and as soon as it was over, _Eugenia_ desir'd her
young beautiful Mother-in-Law to retreat a little with her into the
Country, to a pleasant House she had, not twenty Miles distant from
Town; urging, That she could by no Means enjoy her self under that Roof,
where her dear Father dy'd. The obliging Step-mother, who might more
properly have been call'd her Sister, being exactly of the same Age with
her, r