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BNL.762.019
10 Jun 1762:31 (3024)
An interesting anecdote,
And so, as I was saying, it was quite a premeditated
affair, and by no means the effect of a sudden fit of
passion, or inconsiderate precipitation.--
You are to know they were together at a private public rout,
or ball, the night before they actually went off; that very
night was intended for the execution of their project. They
danced together About two in the morning, says she to her
mother,--"My dear madam, I am sorry to be the cause of
keeping you here so long beyond your usual hour of repose;
but really I am in such spirits, and find my self in such a
humour for dancing, that I fear it will be late, before I
shall be able to persuade my self to give over. Do, good
madam, let me persuade you to retire without me.'--'O ! by
no means, my dear, (replied the kind mother ) I have not the
least inclination to go home: so don't make your self at
all uneasy about me: --' Your time shall be mine.' This
unexpected and superabundant goodness disconcerted their
scheme, and obliged the gentleman to have recourse to a 2d
plot.
About four in the morning, the company broke up. The
mother's chair appeared at the door; but that of the
daughter's was not found: Upon which her partner very
naturally desired the young lady to accept of his. The
prudent matron thanked him for the offer, and told him, that
she would put miss into her chair, and that she her self
would make use of his. This she accordingly performed, and
by that means, added one restless night more to her
daughter's virginity. The next morning the young lady took
it into her head to visit her uncle, stepped into her chair
and quitted her father's house. The chairman sat her down
at a certain house, in a certain street, which house was
previously prepared for the purpose. she told the fellows
to come again at a certain hour, and so dismissed them. The
chair returned according to order; but on enquiring for the
lady, the men were told, that she had been gone from thence
a considerable time. This was reported to her father, who
the next morning receiv'd a letter, which by the hand-
writing on the direction, he knew to be his daughter's. . .
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