There's another Cause of Dislike among such as have Dealings with _Betty_'s Tenants who come on Business, or to visit her _Sister_, that they run in debt with them, and don't pay. So do all their Neighbours, for that matter; but they complain of none but _Betty_, though it is very well known they make ample Reprisals on her; and _one Bite_ of theirs, is worth a hundred of _Betty_'s, who are none but such as are despised at home, and can get neither Credit or Company there; for _Betty_ is not yet arrived to that Degree of Politeness, as to court and caress _Highway-men_ and _Sharpers_, only because _they keep good Company_, and are Gentlemen of _nice Honour_, but sincerely wishes her _Sister_ to hang them all. The last I shall mention (and, to be sure, a wise Cause of Dislike it is) _Betty_ goes once, at least, every Year to pay her Sister a Visit, carries all her Money, puts on her best Cloaths, lives high as long as she has a Penny left. This vexes her _Sister_, and many a _Slut_ and _Flirt_ she calls _Betty_, at the very time she is throwing away her Money with both Hands for the Tradesmen and Shoeboys to scramble up. They are both Fools; _One_ for shewing this Contempt, and the other for putting herself in the Way of it. It is wished, but probably in vain, that the two _Sisters_ would come to a better Understanding. They that have considered the true Interest of both, see plainly that the _elder_, and consequently the _younger_, must be shortly undone, if these Bickerings and ill Offices continue. So _unnatural_ a Quarrel between near Relations must make them despised by all the _Neighbours_ around, who are hourly taking the Advantage of it, and _profiting_ themselves by the Hindrance the _Sisters_ give to each other. But their Manners and Disposition are so different, that it's next to impossible they should ever love one another; tho', for mutual Interest, and to make that Figure in the Eye of the World which two _Ladies_ of their Distinction and Fortune ought to assume, their Friends may agree to promote _jointly_ their Interests, and never heed how peevish and untoward _either_ of them may be, or pay any Regard to the _fanciful Aversions_, and ungrounded Jealousies, which are always inseparable from a female Breast. Tho' in this History I have rather copied the _chaste Brevity_ of _Cornelius Nepos_, than the diffused and _chatty_ Eloquence of _Plutarch_; I shall conclude, in Imitation of the latter, with a Description of the two _Ladies_, their Persons, Manners, and Inclinations; and, in drawing the _Parallel_, with Freedom represent, their Vices as well as _Vertues_, their Faults as well as their Perfections.