of whom ſhe maintained ſo conſtant a Jealouſy, that he durſt hardly ſpeak to one Woman in the Pariſh; for the leaſt Degree of Civility, or even Correſpondence with any Female, was ſure to bring his Wife upon her Back, and his own.
In order to guard herſelf againſt matrimonial Injuries in her own Houſe, as ſhe kept one Maid Servant, ſhe always took Care to chuſe her out of that Order of Females, whoſe Faces are taken as a Kind of Security for their Virtue; of which Number Jenny Jones, as the Reader hath been before informed, was one.
As the Face of this young Woman might be called pretty good Security of the before-mentioned Kind, and as her Behaviour had been always extremely modeſt; which is the certain Conſequence of Underſtanding in Women; ſhe had paſſed above four Years at Mr. Partridge’s, (for that was the Schoolmaſter’s Name) without creating the leaſt Suſpicion in her Miſtreſs. Nay, ſhe had been treated with uncommon Kindneſs, and her Miſtreſs had permitted Mr. Partridge to give her thoſe Inſtructions, which have been before commemorated.
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