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The Vicar of Wakefield.

no instructions of mine could persuade to a perfect reconciliation; for women have a much stronger sense of female error than men. "Ah, madam," cried her mother, "this is but a poor place you are come to after so much finery. My daughter So­phy and I can afford but little enter­tainment to persons who have kept com­pany only with people of distinction. Yes, Miss Livy, your poor father and I have suffered very much of late; but I hope heaven will forgive you."—During this reception, the unhappy victim stood pale and trembling, unable to weep or to re­ply; but I could not continue a silent spec­tator of her distress, wherefore assuming a degree of severity in my voice and manner, which was ever followed with instant sub­mission, "I entreat, woman, that my words may be now marked once for all: I have here brought you back a poor deluded wanderer; her return to duty demands the revival of our tenderness. The"real