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Well! however, as she had told her Mind to the other Lady, and bid her think of it, and find out such a Man for her, if she met with any thing suitable to her Circumstances, the Lady comes to her one Day fall of Joy, and big with the Discovery.
"Oh Child, says she, I have thought of what you told me the other Day about your Circumstances, I have found a Man that will fit you every way to a tittle; so grave, so sober, so honest, you can never put your self into better Hands; he is a Master of Business, and Bred to it; he understands Accompts, making Leases, letting Farms, knows every Thing, and, in short, you can never have such an Opportunity while you live; for he will suit your other Proposal too, about that usual Affair of Matrimony; you understand me, Madam; I can assure you, he will never disturb you that Way, he has no Thoughts of that Kind, nor is he in a Condition for it."
The Lady heard her with Smiles till she comes to the very last Words, when she turns up her Nose with a snuff. Away! away! says she, I thought you had known better than that too; I love the Virtue, as I told you, but I hate the Infirmity.
Now when I shall see any one of those Ladies who are for marrying, but say, they hope they shall have no Children; I say, when I shall see them marry an Origin, or such a Man as this Lady recommended to her Friend, and, knowing him to he such, then I shall no longer doubt their Sincerity.
Or when one of those Ladies, professing an Aversion to Children, shall also maintain anAver-
