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layed, could not now be long prevented. And accordingly the very next night, the husband and wife had not been long in bed together, before a ſtorm aroſe, as if drums, guns, wind and thunder were all roaring together. Villain, rogue, whore, beaſt, cheat, all reſounded at the ſame inſtant, and were followed by curſes, imprecations and threats, which ſoon waked the poor great-grandſon in the garret; who immediately ran down ſtairs into his great-grandmother’s room. He found her in the midſt of it in her ſhift, with a handful of ſhirt in one hand, and a handful of hair in the other, ſtamping and crying, I am undone, cheated, abuſed, ruined, robbed by a vile jade, impoſtor, whore.—What is the matter, dear Madam, anſwered the youth; O child, replied ſhe, undone! I am married to one who is no man. My husband? a woman, a woman, a woman. Ay, ſaid the grandſon, where is ſhe?—Run away, gone, ſaid the great-grandmother, and indeed ſo ſhe was: For no ſooner was the fatal diſcovery made, than the poor female bridegroom, whipt on her breeches, in the pockets of which, ſhe had ſtowed all the money ſhe could, and ſlipping on her ſhoes, with her coat, waiſte-coat and ſtockings in her hands, had made the beſt of her way into the ſtreet, leaving almoſt one half of her ſhirt behind, which the enraged wife had tore from her back.
As Mrs. Hamilton well knew that an adventure of that kind would ſoon fill all Dublin, and that it was impoſſible for her to remain there undiſcovered, ſhe haſtened away to the Key, where by good fortune, ſhe met with a ſhip juſt bound to Dartmouth, on board which ſhe immediately went, and ſailed out of the harbour, before her purſuers could find out or overtake her.
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