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She no sooner opened her chamber door with thisbook20 intent than she was met by Madam la Mer who after having professed her concern for what had happened overnight and imputed Mr. Monimia overwhelmed with gratitude and surprise at this unexpected address gazed upon the lady in silence and when she repeated her tenders of service could make no other reply to her goodness than by bursting into a flood of tears. He also thanked Madam Clement for her charity and benevolence towards a stranger and took his leave with many polite professions of gratitude and esteem. I admitted the traitor into my friendship and confidence relieved him in his necessities and like the ungrateful viper he hath stung the very bosom that cherished him in his distress. Thus attended the hapless mourner entered the place and according to the laudable hospitality of England which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God this amiable creature emaciated and enfeebled as she was must have stood in a common passage during the whole service had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman who struck with her beauty and dignified air and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance opened the pew in which she sat and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.

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