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dreadful catastrophe, lies fast asleep in her mind;--so Sophia, thanwhom none was more capable of tenderly feeling the general calamity ofher country, found such immediate satisfaction from the relief ofthose terrors she had of being overtaken by her father, that thearrival of the French scarce made any impression on her. She gentlychid her maid for the fright into which she had thrown her, and said"she was glad it was no worse; for that she had feared somebody elsewas come.""Ay, ay," quoth the landlord, smiling, "her ladyship knows betterthings; she knows the French are our very best friends, and come overhither only for our good. They are the people who are to make OldEngland flourish again. I warrant her honour thought the duke wascoming; and that was enough to put her into a fright. I was going totell your ladyship the news.--His honour's majesty, Heaven bless him,hath given the duke the slip, and is marching as fast as he can toLondon, and ten thousand French are landed to join him on the road."Sophia was not greatly pleased with this news, nor with the gentlemanwho related it; but, as she still imagined he knew her (for she couldnot possibly have any suspicion of the real truth), she durst not showany dislike. And now the landlord, having removed the cloth from thetable, withdrew; but at his departure frequently repeated his hopes ofbeing remembered hereafter.The mind of Sophia was not at all easy under the supposition of beingknown at this house; for she still applied to herself many thingswhich the landlord had addressed to Jenny Cameron; she thereforeordered her maid to pump out of him by what means he had becomeacquainted with her person, and who had offered him the reward forbetraying her; she likewise ordered the horses to be in readiness byfour in the morning, at which hour Mrs Fitzpatrick promised to bearher company; and then, composing herself as well as she could, shedesired that lady to continue her story.Chapter vii.In which Mrs Fitzpatrick concludes her history.While Mrs Honour, in pursuance of the commands of her mistress,ordered a bowl of punch, and invited my landlord and landlady topartake of it, Mrs Fitzpatrick thus went on with her relation."Most of the officers who were quartered at a town in ourneighbourhood were of my husband's acquaintance. Among these there wasa lieutenant, a very pretty sort of man, and who was married to awoman, so agreeable both in her temper and conversation, that from ourfirst knowing each other, which was soon after my lying-in, we werealmost inseparable companions; for I had the good fortune to makemyself equally agreeable to her."The lieutenant, who was neither a sot nor a sportsman, was frequentlyof our parties; indeed he was very little with my husband, and no morethan good breeding constrained him to be, as he lived almostconstantly at our house. My husband often expressed muchdissatisfaction at the lieutenant's preferring my company to his; hewas very angry with me on that account, and gave me many a hearty

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