 hasty
Leave, but not before he had heartily shaken his Friend by the Hand, and desired
to see him again as soon as possible; promising, that he would himself take the
first Opportunity of visiting him at his owe House. He then stept into his
Chair, and proceeded to Lady Bellaston's, greatly exulting in the Happiness
which he had procured to this poor Family; nor could he forbear reflecting
without Horror on the dreadful Consequences which must have attended them, had
he listened rather to the Voice of strict Justice, than to that of Mercy when he
was attacked on the high Road.
    Mrs. Miller sung forth the Praises of Jones during the whole Evening, in
which Mr. Enderson, while he stayed, so passionately accompanied her, that he
was often on the very Point of mentioning the Circumstances of the Robbery.
However, he luckily recollected himself, and avoided an Indiscretion which would
have been so much the greater, as he knew Mrs. Miller to be extremely strict and
nice in her Principles. He was likewise well apprized of the Loquacity of this
Lady; and yet such was his Gratitude, that it had almost got the better both of
Discretion and Shame, and made him publish that which would have defamed his own
Character, rather than omit any Circumstances which might do the fullest Honour
to his Benefactor.
 

                                   Chapter XI

                     In which the Reader will be surprized.
 
Mr. Jones was rather earlier than the Tirne appointed, and earlier than the
Lady, whose Arrival was hindered not only by the Distance of the Place where she
dined, but by some other cross Accidents, very vexatious to one in her Situation
of Mind. He was accordingly shewn into the Drawing-Room, where he had not been
many Minutes before the Door opened, and in came - no other than Sophia herself,
who had left the Play before the End of the first Act; for this, as we have
already said, being a new Play, at which two large Parties met, the one to damn,
and the other to applaud, a violent Uproar, and an Engagement between the two
Parties had so terrified our Heroine, that she was glad to put herself under the
Protection of a young Gentleman, who safely conveyed her to her Chair.
    As Lady Bellaston had acquainted her that she should not be at Home till
late, Sophia expecting to find no one in the Room, came hastily in, and went
directly to a Glass which almost fronted her, without once looking towards the
upper End of the Room, where the Statue of Jones now stood motionless. - In this
Glass it
