du Plessis, cried she, little do you think to whom you would ally yourself:you would, you say, despise a portion, but would you marry a foundling, a child of charity, one that has neither name nor friends, and who, in her best circumstances, is but a poor dependant, a servant in effect, tho' not in shew, and owes her very cloaths to the bounty of another?Oh!

who fathers the foundlings?

We hired a carry-lettz and a cocky-olly, to take us to the Church of Salt Peter, which is prodigious big; in the centre of the pizarro there is a basilisk very high, on the right and left two handsome foundlings; and the farcy, as Mr. Fulmer called it, is ornamented with collateral statutes of some of the Apostates.'

She bit her lip, reluctantly extended unaccustomed arms, and received the foundling into them.

The maids, however, made a thorough job of it, and scoured the foundling from head to foot.

They were all four little Parisians, it seemedtwo foundlings and two that had come from Madame Bourdieu's.

They would send no more "foundlings" from Madrid!

Now he has found out that I myself was on the way to see you; and to bring before my eyes some foundling as my daughter's child, that he did not dare to do.

Nature took the foundling to her broader breast.

Yet, sir, pardon me if I now discover a desire with which I long have laboured, of doing something of myself which may repair the obscurity of my birth, and prove to the world that heaven has endued this foundling with a courage and resolution capable of undertaking the greatest actions.