12/18 _Lady_ .-- Nay, if he was gotten into the South Sea, that might hurt him indeed, as it has done many a gentleman of better estates than he. _Lady_ .-- I don't know whether it was the South Sea, or some other bubbles, but he was very near making a bubble of her, and L3000 into the bargain. _Lady_ .-- I am glad she has escaped him, if it be so; it is a sign her friends took a great deal of care of her. _Lady_ .-- He won't hold it long; he will have his desert, I hope; I don't doubt but we shall see him in the Gazette quickly for a bankrupt. _Lady_ .-- If he does not draw in some innocent young thing that has her fortune in her own hands to patch him up. |