denounced againſt it in the other. Be a good Girl the reſt of your Days, and Want ſhall be no Motive to your going aſtray: And believe me, there is more Pleaſure, even in this World, in an innocent and virtuous Life, than in one debauched and vicious.
‘As to your Child, let no Thoughts concerning it, moleſt you; I will provide for it in a better manner than you can ever hope. And now nothing remains, but that you inform me who was the wicked Man that ſeduced you; for my Anger againſt him will be much greater than you have experienced on this Occaſion.’
Jenny now firſt lifted her Eyes from the Ground, and with a modeſt Look, and decent Voice, thus began:
‘To know you, Sir, and not love your Goodneſs, would be an Argument of total want of Senſe or Goodneſs in any one. In me it would amount to the higheſt Ingratitude, not to feel, in the moſt ſenſible manner, the great Degree of Goodneſs you have been pleaſed to exert on this Occaſion. As to my Concern for what is paſt, I know you will ſpare my Bluſhes the Repetition. My future Con-‘duct
