Well, then, my lord, you will leave it to me to do the best I can with her: but it cannot be the best on your side, for your honour’s sake, if we do her not that justice that the law would, or ought to do her. In a word, my lord, you must forgive me for saying, that you shall not resume that dignity to distress this woman, which you laid aside, when jou entered into treaty with her.

Well, well, I refer myself to your management: only this 100/. a year Once again, I say, it would hurt me to reward a woman for plaguing me: and 150/. a year is two-thirds more than ever she, or any ^f her family, were intitled to.

“jPhe worst and meanest are intitled to justice, my lord; and I hope your lordship will not refuse to perform engagements that you entered into with your eyes open: you must noty if i take any concern in this affair.

Just then the woman sent in, to beg the favour of an audience, as she called it, of me.

She addressed me in terms above her education. There is something, said she, in your countenance, Sir, so terrible, and yet so sweet, that one must fear your anger, and yet hope for your forgiveness, when one has offended. I was too free in speaking of my lord to his nephew And then she made a compliment to my character, and told me, she would be determined by my pleasure, be it what it would.

How seldom are violent spirits, true spirits! When over-awed, how tame are they, generally, in their submission! Yet this woman was not without art in hers. She saw, that, displeased as she ap-prehended I was with her, I had given her hopes of the payment of the hundred pounds a year penalty; and this made her so acquiescent.

I was indeed displeased with you, Mrs. Giffard; and could not, from what you said, but conclude in your disfavour, in justification of my lord’s complaints against you.

Will you give me leave. Sir, to lay before you the true state of every thing between my lord and me? Indeed, Sir, you don’t know

When two persons, who have lived in familiarity, differ, the fault is seldom wholly on one side: but thus far I judge between you, and desire not to hear particulars: the man who dispenses with a ki.own duty, in such’a case as this before us, must render himself despicable in the eyes of the very person whom he raises into consequence by sinking his own. Chastity is the crown and glory of a woman. The ^Obt pro^igate of men love modesty in the sex, at the very time they are forming plots to destroy it in a particular object. When a woman has sub-mitted to put a price upon her honour, she must ap — pear, at times, despicable in the eyes even of her seducer; and when these two break out into ani-mosity, ought either to wish to live with the other?