Chapter VII How Pretty Betty, Living at an Inn at Rumford, Was Courted by Persons of Fortune
It being whispered about that pretty Betty must needs be some great person’s daughter, it highly increased her reputation. At last the inn-keeper’s son, a very rich London merchant, courted her. But she modestly declined his offers, as also the offers of all other suitors, by representing to them the inequality of her fortune to theirs; but this served only to increase their passions. And being every day importuned, she at last resolved to discover who her parents were, judging that way to be the most sure means to try the sincerity of their love and affection which they pretended to have for her.