Spunging-house

Vanity is the perfection of a Fop; my Huſband had this Excellence, that he valued nothing of Expence, and as his Hiſtory you may be ſure, has very little vveight in it; 'tis enough to tell you, that in about tvvo Years and a Quarter he Broke, and vvas not ſo happy to get over into the Mint, but got into a Spunging-Houſe, being Arreſted in an action too heavy for him to give Bail to, ſo he ſent for me to come to him.

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The inquiry thus made, does his solvency prove dubious? Seizing his person affords no security. In jail, or in a spunging-house, his effects, for every purpose of removal or dissipation, are as much in his power as if he were at home. Secure the effects themselves, all removal, all dissipation is at end.

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Miss Jemima was made to fetch the drawing-master's receipts and letters. This one was from a spunging-house: that entreated an advance: another was full of gratitude for Rebecca's reception by the ladies of Chiswick

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