But she's
a dear sweet soul, as innocent as the child unborn. She has tould
me all her inward thoughts, and disclosed her passion for Mr
Wilson; and that's not his name neither; and thof he acted among
the player-men, he is meat for their masters; and she has gi'en
me her yallow trollopea; which Mrs Drab, the mantymaker, says
will look very well when it is scowred and smoaked with silfur --
You knows as how, yallow fitts my fizzogmony. God he knows what
havock I shall make among the mail sex, when I make my first
appearance in this killing collar, with a full soot of gaze, as
good as new, that I bought last Friday of madam Friponeau, the
French mullaner -- Dear girl, I have seen all the fine shews of
Bath; the Prades, the Squires, and the Circlis, the Crashit, the
Hottogon, and Bloody Buildings, and Harry King's row; and I have
been twice in the Bath with mistress, and na'r a smoak upon our
backs, hussy. The first time I was mortally afraid, and flustered
all day; and afterwards made believe that I had got the heddick;
but mistress said, if I didn't go I should take a dose of
bumtaffy; and so remembering how it worked Mrs Gwyllim a
pennorth, I chose rather to go again with her into the Bath, and
then I met with an axident.
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