We have already informed the reader that Jane frequently changed her servants.

            One day, a new servant came to offer Jane her service, the old bawd having asked her many questions, in the course of her interrogator discovered that she was a Jew. This circumstance threw Jane into such violent agonies, that the cursed and swore like the master of a vessel, when the winds are high.

            "D––n you, you b––h," said she, how could you come to such a house as mine to offer your service? What you b––h do you think I have no more conscience than to suffer Jews amongst Christians?" So she immediately turned her out of doors in such a fury, that one would have thought that the zeal of G–d's house had eaten her up:

            Such an instance of Jane's attachment to Christianity may perhaps induce the reader to think that she was one of those devotees who retain a spice of enthusiasm whilst they lead a life of vice and debauchery.

            To prevent this mistake, we shall here give a catalogue of the books which composed Jane's library.

            The reader may possibly think that The Week's Preparation, The Practice of Piety and other religious books filled her shelves; but he will find it was quite the reverse, if he does but take the trouble, to read to the end of the chapter.

            We shall therefore here insert a list of her books as it was taken by' a gentleman who once happened to wait for her in her study.

The cabinet of love.
The art of money-catching.
Aristotle's master-piece.
The London bawd.
The English rogue.
The ladies' delight
The trial of Colonel Charteris
Doctor Faustus.
Rochester's poems.
The Scotch rogue.
The Spanish rogue.
Visions of Hell.
The harlot's progress.
The memoirs of a woman of pleasure.

            With many others of the same sort, which we shall not at present enumerate. From this list, the reader may form a judgment of the manner, in which Jane chose to be edified in the hours which she consecrated to study.

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