out of the Reach of that Obloquy ſhe had incurred, concluding with ſome additional Documents, in which he recommended Repentance, ſaying, “Conſider, Child, there is one ſtill to reconcile yourſelf to, whoſe Favour is of much greater Importance to you than mine.’
CHAP. VIII.
A Dialogue between Meſdames Bridget and Deborah; containing more Amuſement, but leſs Inſtruction than the former.
Wwhen Mr. Allworthy had retired to his Study with Jenny Jones, as hath been ſeen, Mrs. Bridget, with the good Houſekeeper, had betaken themſelves to a Poſt next adjoining to the ſaid Study; whence, through the Conveyance of a Key-hole, they ſucked in at their Ears the inſtructive Lecture delivered by Mr. Allworthy, together with the Anſwers of Jenny, and indeed every other Particular which paſſed in the laſt Chapter.
This Hole in her Brother’s Study Door, was indeed as well known to Mrs. Bridget, and had been as frequently applied to by her, as the famous Hole in the Wall was by
