Cafe at preſent, and in leſs than a Month the Captain and his Lady were Man and Wife.
The great Concern now was to break the Matter to Mr. Allworthy, and this was undertaken by the Doctor.
One Day then as Allworthy was walking in his Garden, the Doctor came to him, and with great Gravity of Aſpect, and all the Concern which he could poffibly affect in his Countenance, ſaid, ‘I am come, Sir, to impart an Affair to you of the utmoſt Conſequence; but how ſhall I mention to you, what[errata 1] almoſt diſtracts me to think of!’ He then launched forth into the moſt bitter Invectives both againſt Men and Women; accuſing the former of having no Attachment but to their Intereſt, and the latter of being ſo addicted to vicious Inclinations, that they could never be ſafely truſted with one of the other Sex; ‘Could I, ſaid he, Sir, have ſuſpected, that a Lady of ſuch Prudence, ſuch Judgment, ſuch Learning, ſhould indulge ſo indiſcreet a Paſſion; or could I have imagined that my Brother—why do I call him ſo? He is no longer a Brother of mine.—’
‘Indeed
