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1: The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c.
2: 'Then I will have no victuals,' says I, again very innocently;
3: However, nothing else passed at that time; it was but a sur-
4: I then began at a distance, and told him I was afraid the ladies
5: 'Alas, says the old lady, 'that poor girl! I am afraid she will
6: The younger sister then put in. 'We must be fools indeed,'
7: My husband was so civil to me, for still I say he was much
8: Nothing is more certain than that the ladies always gain of the
9: My husband, to give him his due, was a man of infinite good
10: At length he tells all this story to his mother, and sets her upon
11: We had an indifferent good voyage till we came just upon the
12: This was a surprising thing to me, and perhaps may be so to
13: This was indeed all a cheat thus far, viz. that I had no intention
14: 'Well, sir,' says I, 'then you must divorce her. If you can
15: 'What injury can be done me, my dear,' says he, 'in marrying
16: This was too reasonable a proposal to be denied, so he called
17: I found she was an eminent lady in her way; and, in short, I
18: 'Why,' said I, 'do you think, mother, that when I come to see
19: Well, this alarm stopped us another day, though my spouse
20: She received me very civilly, and with her usual obliging
21: It is true that when she was gone, and had not opened mouth
22: He did all he could to discover this Gabriel Spencer; he
23: She laid her scheme another way, and without acquainting me
24: As soon as I had got the bundle, and the maid was out of sight,
25: My attorney gave me notice to come to this meeting in good
26: When I was come this length, I offered the gentleman all the
27: After a full hearing, the alderman gave it as his opinion that
28: I sunk down when they brought me news of it, and after I came
29: This discourse, though very seasonable, left a kind of sadness
30: I told him he frighted and terrified himself with that which
31: Then he told us he did not doubt but that the captain, who was
32: In this perplexity I continued a great while, and this made my
33: However, that wish was not hearty neither, for I loved my

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