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It IS to her advantage that the female at- 

 tendants of her family fhould be as handfome 

 as (he can procure them. Being flaves, the 

 only recompence of their fervices, is the food 

 they eat, the hard bed they fleep on, and the 

 few loofe clothes which are hung upon them. 

 One privilege, indeed, is allowed them, 

 which, you will be fliocked to know, is that 

 of tenderly difpofing of their perlbns ; and 

 this offers the only hope they have of pro- 

 curing a fum of money, wherewith to purchafe 

 their freedom : and the refource among them 

 is fo common, that neither fhame nor difgrace 

 attaches to it; but, on the contrary, fhe who is 

 moft fought, becomes an objeft of envy, and 

 is proud of the diftindion fiiewn her. 



One of our attendants at table, appeared, 

 both from her converfation and behaviour, 

 to be very fuperlor to her degraded ftation. 

 She had nothing of beauty, nor even pretti- 

 nefs of face, but fhe was of good figure, and 

 of refpedable and interefting demeanor, and, 

 in point of intelled, far above her colleagues. 

 Together with gentlenefs of manner, and an 

 eafy, pleafant addrefs, fhe poifeffes a degree 



