Jane, who had always a very good memory, could not possibly forget this injurious treatment: so she applied to an honest attorney that often frequented her house, and he acquitted himself so well that Mother D––n was the sessions after, condemned to the pillory.

            Here poor Mother D––n was sadly pelted by the mob; and such was the humane disposition of Jane D––s, that when she was informed of all her quondam friend had passed through, she very charitably cried, "The devil relieve her."

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