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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...fearing the lady should overhear their conversation, -aid in a low voice, ' Hush, for Heaven's sake! be sj. lent, and let her have an apartment for this night only; tomorrow she goes with me to Philadelphia; when I am master of her estate and person, and come to reside among you, you may depend npon my favour, and that J shall be one of your firmest friends." The landlord perplexed and irritated at a reply which he could not understand, answered in a voice not at all softened; " Estate! yes, a fine estate you'll have with a w I'll warrant. But yon may seek another lodging: she shall go packing directly. I'm not going to have the credit of my house ruined, which for twenty years has been perfectly good, by no stich madams, I'll assure you, sir." O'Connor, perplexed and confounded, in his turn, at what he had just heard, answered: " What is it you say? Pray explain yourself. What mean you by calling Miss hel-don such opprobrious names? "Ha! ha! ha! Very good, excellent, by jingo; and so she has been and palmed herself on you for Miss Sheldon. But she's an impudent baggage, and no more Miss Sheldon than our Moll is.: ' ' Who then, for Heaven's sake, is she? interrogated the astonished Irishman. The landlord then gave him to understand, that she was one of those unhappy females, who are lost to all sense of modesty and virtue; too many of whom are to be found in all our large towns: that, about a month before, she had come into the village with a young gentleman from Philadelphia, where she had passed for sometime, for his wife; that, about a week before, they had a violent quarrel, and parted; that In his anger he exposed her character, left her, and returned to Philadelphia; since which time, she had been Strolling about in quest of prey, and...