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MY father was an eminent merchant in the city, who, having in the course of trade suffered very considerable losses, retired in his old age, with his wife, to a small estate in the country, which he had purchased with the remains of his fortune. At that time I, being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid Presbyterian, and who con-lined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that, in time, I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees conceived an aversion for the good books she daily recommended to my perusal. As I increased in age, and appeared with a person not disagreeable, I contracted a good deal of acquaintance among my own sex, one of whom, after having lamented the restraint I was under from the narrowness of my aunt's sentiments, told me, J must now throw off the prejudices of opinion imbibed under her
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List of Illustrations xv; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The History of Miss Williams i-15; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE; She is interrupted by a Bailiff", who arrests and carries her to the Marshalsea-I accompany her-Bring Witnesses to prove she is not the Person named in the Writ-The Bailiff is fain to give her a Present, and discharge her-We shift our Lodging-She resumes her Story, and ends it-My Reflections thereupon-She makes me acquainted with the Progress of a Common Woman of the Town-Resolves to quit that Way of Life I5~3o; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR; I am reduced to great Misery-Assaulted on Tower Hill by a Press-gang, who put me on board a Tender - Aly Usage there-My Arrival on board of the Thunder Man of War where I am put in Irons, and afterwards released by the; TAOtb; good Offices of Mr Thomson, who recommends me as Assistant to the Surgeon-He relates his own Story, and makes me acquainted with the Characters of the Captain, Surgeon, and First Mate 30-40; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE; The Behaviour of Mr Morgan-His
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