Everybody said that Hocus had a month's mind to her; be that as it will, it is matter of fact, that upon all occasions she ran out extravagantly on the praise of Hocus.

When John used to be finding fault with his bills, she used to reproach him as ungrateful to his greatest benefactor; one that had taken so much pains in his lawsuit, and retrieved his family from the oppression of old Lewis Baboon.

A good swinging sum of John's readiest cash went towards building of Hocus's country house.** This affair between Hocus and Mrs.Bull was now so open, that all the world was scandalised at it; John was not so clod-pated, but at last he took the hint.

The parson of the parish preaching one day with more zeal than sense against adultery, Mrs.Bull told her husband that he was a very uncivil fellow to use such coarse language before people of condition;*** that Hocus was of the same mind, and that they would join to have him turned out of his living for using personal reflections.

How do you mean, says John, by personal reflections?
I hope in God, wife, he did not reflect upon you?
"No, thank God, my reputation is too well established in the world to receive any hurt from such a foul-mouthed scoundrel as he; his doctrine tends only to make husbands tyrants, and wives slaves; must we be shut up, and husbands left to their liberty?
Very pretty indeed! a wife must never go abroad with a Platonic to see a play or a ball; she must never stir without her husband; nor walk in Spring Garden with a cousin.