, and employed in contemplating the same Objects in the same
manner. With equal Rapture the good Rider surveys the proudest Boasts of the
Architect, and those fair Buildings, with which some unknown Name hath adorned
the rich Cloathing-Town; where heaps of Bricks are piled up as a Kind of
Monument, to shew that Heaps of Money have been piled there before.
    And now, Reader, as we are in Haste to attend our Heroine, we will leave to
thy Sagacity to apply all this to the Boeotian Writers, and to those Authors who
are their Opposites. This thou wilt be abundantly able to perform without our
Aid. Bestir thyself therefore on this Occasion; for tho' we will always lend
thee proper Assistance in difficult Places, as we do not, like some others,
expect thee to use the Arts of Divination to discover our Meaning; yet we shall
not indulge thy Laziness where nothing but thy own Attention is required, for
thou art highly mistaken if thou dost imagine that we intended, when we began
this great Work, to leave thy Sagacity nothing to do, or that without sometimes
exercising this Talent, thou wilt be able to travel through our Pages with any
Pleasure or Profit to thyself.
 

                                   Chapter X

Containing a Hint or two concerning Virtue, and a few more concerning Suspicion.
 
Our Company being arrived at London, were set down at his Lordship's House,
where while they refreshed themselves after the Fatigue of their Journey,
Servants were dispatched to provide a Lodging for the two Ladies; for as her
Ladyship was not then in Town, Mrs. Fitzpatrick would by no Means consent to
accept a Bed in the Mansion of the Peer.
    Some Readers will perhaps condemn this extraordinary Delicacy, as I may call
it, of Virtue, as too nice and scrupulous; but we must make Allowances for her
Situation, which must be owned to have been very ticklish; and when we consider
the Malice of censorious Tongues, we must allow, if it was a Fault, the Fault
was an Excess on the right Side, and which every Woman who is in the self-same
Situation will do well to imitate. The most formal Appearance of Virtue, when it
is only an Appearance, may perhaps, in very abstracted Considerations, seem to
be rather less commendable than Virtue itself without this Formality; but it
will however be always more commended; and this, I believe, will be granted by
all, that it is necessary, unless in some very particular Cases, for every Woman
to support either the one or the other.
    A Lodging being prepared, Sophia accompanied her Cousin
