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again. I alfo remarked the modeft manner of your fpeaking, when you unavoidably reported of your own good deeds; you founded no trumpet before you, and thereby convinced me you are not of that pharifaical leaven, which feeketh the praise of men; and let me tell you, Sir, it is the very teft of true charity, that it vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. Humility, Mr. Abrahams, in a peculiar degree is expected of you, as of one of the children of wrath, fcattered over the face of the earth without an abiding place, which you may call your own: Charity also is in you a duty of more than ordinary obligation, for you and your's fubfift no otherwife than on the charity of the nations, who give you shelter: The alms of others may be termed a free gift of love, but your alms are in fact a legal tribute for protection. To conclude-I exhort you to take in good part what I have now been saying; you are the first of your nation I ever communed with, and if hereafter in the execution of my duty I am led to speak with rigour of your stiffnecked generation, I fhall make a mental exception in your favour, and recommend you in my prayers for all Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics by a feparate ejaculation in your behalf.

Whether Abrahams in his heart thanked the honeft curate for his zeal is hard to fay, but

there

there was nothing to be obferved in his countcnance, which befpoke any other emotions than thofe of benevolence and good-nature. My friend Drowsy was not quite fo placid at certain periods of the difcourfe, and when he found that the humble Ifraelite made no other return, but by a civil inclination of the head to the speaker at the conclufion of the harangue, he faid to Abrahams in a qualifying tone of voice, Mr. Beetle, Sir, means well; to which the other inftantly replied, that he did not doubt it, and then with a defign, as it should seem, to turn the difcourfe, informed Ned, that he had taken the liberty of going in person to the father of Mrs. Goodifon, in hopes he would have allowed him to speak of the fituation, in which he had found his daughter and her child; but alas! added he, I had no fooner began to open the business upon which I came, than he instantly stopt my mouth by demanding, if I came into his house to affront him? that he was astonished at my affurance for daring to name his daughter in his hearing, and in the fame breath in a very haughty tone cried out, Harkye, Sir! are not you a Jew? to which I had no fooner replied in the affirmative, than ringing his bell very violently, he called out to his footman, to put that Jew out of his doors. Here Abrahams paufed; Ned ftarted up from

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his chair, drank a glass of wine, fhook the Jew by the hand, flounced down upon his seat again, whistled part of a tune, and turning to me faid in a half-whisper, What a world is this we live in!

N° CXX.

FTER the converfation related in the

A preceding chapter, Drowly and his guests

paffed a focial evening, and honest Abrahams was prevailed upon to take a bed at Poppy Hall. The next morning early, as I was walking in the garden, I was much furprised to find Ned there before me-I dare fay you wonder, faid he, what could provoke my laziness to quit my pillow thus early, but I am refolved to shake off a flothful habit, which till our discourse laft night I never confidered as criminal. I have been thinking over all that Mr. Abrahams told us about the diftreffed widow and her daughter, and I must own to you I have a longing defire to obtain a fight of this Conftantia, whom he defcribes to be so charming in mind and person,

Now

Now I don't know with what face I can invite her hither; befides I confider, though I might prevail upon Mr. Abrahams to bring her, yet I 'fhould be confoundedly hampered how to get handsomely off, if upon acquaintance it did not fuit me to propose for her.

You judge rightly, faid I, your dilemma would be embarraffing.

Well then, quoth he, there is no alternative but for me to go to her, and though I am aware of the trouble it will give me to take a journey to London, where I have never been and shall probably make a very awkward figure, yet if you will encourage me fo far as to fay you will take a corner in my coach thither, and Mr. Abrahams does not object to the scheme, I will even pluck up a good courage and set out to

morrow.

Be it fo! anfwered I, if Mr. Abrahams approves of it, I have no objection to the party.

On the morrow we fet off; Abrahams and myfelf with Ned and his old fervant in his coach for London, and in the evening of the fecond day our poft-boys delivered us fafe at Bloffom's Inn in Lawrence-Lane. Abrahams procured us lodgings at the house of his apothecary in the Poultry, where he firft fheltered Mrs. Goodifon and Conftantia; and having fettled this affair

the good man haftened home to present himself to his family, and prepare for our supping at his houfe that night.

My friend Ned had been in a broad stare of amazement ever fince his entry into London; he feemed anxious to know what all the people were about, and why they pofted up and down in fuch a hurry; he frequently asked me when they would go home and be quiet; for his own part he doubted if he should get a wink of sleep till he was fairly out of this noify town.

As he was feafting his curiofity from the window of our lodgings, the Lord Mayor paffed by in his ftate coach towards the Manfion House-God blefs his Majefty! cried Ned, he is a portly man. He was rather difappointed when I set him right in his mistake; but nevertheless the fpectacle pleafed him, and he commented very gravely upon the commodious fize of the coach and the flow pace of the proceffion, which he faid fhewed the good fenfe and discretion of the city magiftrate, and observing him to be a very corpulent man, added with an air of fome confequence, that he would venture to pronounce my Lord Mayor of London was a wife. man and confulted his own ease.

We now were to fet ourselves in order for our vifit to honeft Abrahams, and Ned began to

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