They came a little before five. I had, as usual, to sit next to Miss Twist, and to bear, as well as I could, many jokes, hints, insinuations, &c, as well as many plain advances, on the part of the young lady, not at all in the way of love and regard, but of affectation and vanity, as though presuming upon the irresistibility of her three hundred thousand charms.
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