Jenny having got into business, made such improvement in the trade of procuress, that she was by many looked upon as a genius, born to carry that branch of business to perfection.

            She constantly ernployed people, to go into the country villages about, and these emissaries being properly instructed by their diabolical mistress, found means to draw in many young girls, upon pretence of getting them places in town.

            These were immediately delivered up to this substitute of Satan, who would send for her tally-woman in order to get them provided with clothes, such as might become them, and suit in such a manner, with their natural charms, as to draw in admirers, whose pockets were to be well drained for Jenny's emolument.

            When she once got these unhappy victims into her clutches, she usually confined them in her house, as boarders, at two guineas a week, for gentlemen that wanted a new face and a maid.

            Ten guineas was the lowest price, that Jenny ever took for a maidenhead, but she sometimes received twenty, thirty, and even forty, and that for a girl that was no more a maid than herself.

            But accidents will happen in the course of business: Jane having got a relation of Mother D––n's into the house, disposed of her maidenhead for twenty guineas to a young gentleman who was just come to possession of a considerable estate.

            Mother D––n having received information of this, reproached Jenny in the bitterest terms imaginable: she told Jenny that she had good blood in her veins, and that though she was obliged to carry on a little business, she was resolved that nobody belonging, to her family should ever turn common whore. Hereupon, Jane damned her for a proud b––h, and told her in plain terms, that there had been both a whore, and a bawd, of her family.

            D––n, who valued her pedigree, resented this last expression highly, and swore that Jane should suffer for it.

            She immediately quitted the room, and Jane was the same evening visited by an officer from Justice F––g. This Jane did not much mind, she was so well known in the neighbourhood, that the immediately got security, but she resented this behaviour of Mother D––n so highly, that the resolved to take an ample revenge upon her: soon after put her purpose in execution, as the reader will find in the next chapter.

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