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on politics and the news of .Ae ooitntry. Wj? happen-
ed , among b^^v topics , to4alh of young Sqnire Thim-
hili, who, the host assured me, was hated af(' much
as his'imcle. Sir William, who 66metim6$ came down
to the country , was lived. ^ He went on. to observe,
that he madie ithis whole ^tudj to betray the daugh-
ters of such as .received^him to thw houses, tod after^
a fortnight or three .weehs* possession turned' them out
.uni*ewarded and abandoned to the^ world. As we edn-
tinued our ^ discourse in thid maimer , his wife ^ who
had been out to ^et change, retimed,, and perceiving
that her husband was enjf^g a pleasure in whidi
she was not a sBarer, she ashed hijniy in to angry
tone', what he did there? to which he Anly replied in
^n ironical . way , by drinking her health. . »Hi:* Sy-
inonds,« cried she, ^you use 'me very ill, and FU'
•bear it no linger. Here three parts of the bifsiness
is left ^9 for me to do, and the fourth left uniSnished,
while you do nothing but sooth with the guests all day
long; whereas, if a spoonful of liquor were to cure
me efa f<Sver, I henrer touch a:dr<^.^ I now fennd^^
what she would bo at, and immediately* poured her
out a glass,' whi^h she received with a curtesy, ttid
drinking towai^s my good health, .9Sir,4c resuihed she,
^it ^is not sd much for the value of the 'liquorl am
angry , but ^one cannot help it when the house is g6-
ing out'of the. windows '■^^.. If fhjB customers or guests
are to be dunned, all the burden lies upon my bachj
he'd as lief ea€ thiat gUss as budge after- thein. himself.
