The morrow made me further acquainted with Mrs. Sweeny. It seems she had introduced herself to her present employer as an English lady in reduced circumstances: a native, indeed, of Middlesex, professing to speak the English tongue with the purest metropolitan accent. Madame⁠—reliant on her own infallible expedients for finding out the truth in time⁠—had a singular intrepidity in hiring service offhand (as indeed seemed abundantly proved in my own case). She received Mrs.