text: Dorcas , faithful to her " young gentlemen , " denied strenuously that it could have been John 's voice she heard , and 142 resolutely declared , in the teeth of everything , that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress .
  
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  Mr. Inglethorp had been cavorting with other women for years before raising any suspicions among his peers .