MISS JENNY. But is not what I say true? If you had not been in
the battle, would not your clothes have been whole, your hair not
torn, your mistress pleased with you, and the apples your own?



Here Miss Sukey paused for some time: for as Miss Jenny was in
the right and had truth on her side, it was difficult for Miss
Sukey to know what to answer. For it is impossible, without being
very silly, to contradict truth; and yet Miss Sukey was so
foolish, that she did not care to own herself in the wrong; though
nothing could have been so great a sign of her understanding.

When Miss Jenny saw her thus at a loss for an answer, she was in
hopes of making her companion happy; for, as she had as much good
nature as understanding, that was her design. She therefore
pursued her discourse in the following manner:



MISS JENNY. Pray, Miss Sukey, do answer me one question more.
Don't you lie awake at nights, and fret and vex yourself, because
you are angry with your school-fellows? Are not you restless and
uneasy, because you cannot find a safe method to be revenged on
them, without being punished yourself? Do tell me truly, is not
this your case?

MISS SUKEY. Yes it is. For if I could but hurt my enemies,
without being hurt myself, it would be the greatest pleasure I