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break every bone he had, if he did not immediately return back to his mafter, and prove a dutiful apprentice.

CHAP.

CHAPTER V.

HOW HE INTENDED TO ESPOUSE A

MISS LOVEALL, AND WAS MAR

RIED TO HIS MASTER'S WIDOW.

THO

HOUGH the feelings of young Gilpin were perhaps the last in the world to be hurt, his pride became, nevertheless, so very fenfibly affected, at his being fent back again to his mafter, that it was feveral days before he could poffibly hold up his head.

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He had fcarcely recovered his fpirits, however, before he determined to marry a young lady that would render him, at once, independent of his worship, and the world at large, and to enable him to do which, the confent of the fair one, was all that he stood in need of. The perfon here alluded to, was a Mifs Loveall, in whofe eye he had long flattered himself he had been thought fomething more than mortal.

He accordingly prevailed on Mr. Beville, a friend of his, to wait upon the young lady with a declaration of his paffion, but inftead

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of its producing any fort of retura from her, the young lady became enamoured with Mr. Beville, and the plenipotentiary from the court of love, in behalf of young Gilpin, improved it fo fuccefsfully, that in lefs than a fortnight after feeing one another, they were actually married, Mr. Beville, who was a young gentleman of confiderable property, having firft generoufly fettled the whole of her for tune upon her.

This, however, being kept a profound fecret from young Gilpin, he, foon afterwards, thinking matters fufficiently ripe for his purpose,

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infifted upon Mr. Beville's accompanying him to Mifs Loveall, fuppofing her yet unmarried, in order to be prefent at the final adjustment of the neceffary preliminaries. Mr. Beville, than whom, no one better loved a joke, not only favoured his ignorance and vanity, but actually agreed to attend him. to Mifs Loveall's the day he appointed, when he even went fo far as to fuffer himfelf to be introduced to her.

Mr. Beville thanked him for hispoliteness, and expreffed the fenfe he had of the great honour intended him, but wifhed at the fame

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