 on this occasion, I sunk into the most profound
melancholy, and considered myself as the immediate cause of his death. - I lost
all relish for company, and indeed most of my acquaintances no sooner perceived
my change of temper, than they abandoned me. Horatio, disgusted at my
insensibility, or (which is more probable) cloyed with possession, became colder
and colder every day, till at last he left me altogether, without making any
apology for his conduct; or securing me against the miseries of want, as a man
of honour ought to have done, considering the share he had in my ruin; for I
afterwards learned that the quarrel between Lothario and him, was a story
trumped up to rid the one of my importunities, and give the other the enjoyment
of my person, which, it seems, he lusted after, upon seeing me at the house of
my seducer. - Reduced to this extremity, I cursed my own simplicity, uttered
horrid imprecations against the treachery of Horatio; and as I became every day
more and more familiarized to the loss of innocence, resolved to be revenged on
the sex in general, by practising their own arts upon themselves. - Nor was an
opportunity long wanting: An old gentlewoman, under pretence of sympathizing,
visited me, and after having condoled with me on my misfortunes, and professed a
disinterested friendship, began to display the art of her occupation, in
encomiums on my beauty, and invectives against the wretch who had forsaken me;
insinuating withal that it would be my own fault if I did not still make my
fortune by the extraordinary qualifications with which nature had endowed me. -
I soon understood her drift, and gave her such encouragement to explain herself,
that we came to an agreement immediately to divide the profits of my
prostitution, accruing from such gallants as she should introduce to my
acquaintance. The first stroke of my dissimulation, was practised upon a certain
J-ge, to whom I was recommended by this matron, as an innocent creature just
arrived from the country; he was so transported with my appearance and feigned
simplicity, that he paid a hundred guineas for the possession of me for one
night only, during which I behaved in such a manner, as to make him perfectly
well-pleased with his purchase.
 

                                 Chapter XXIII

She is interrupted by a bailif, who arrests, and carries her to the Marshalsea
-- I accompany her -- bring witnesses to prove she is not the same person named
in the writ -- the bailif is fain to give her a present, and discharge her -- we
