but leave it to me; and in which, fortunately enough, you take notice of
my being uninclined to marry.--My earnest desire to be with you. The
substance of my answer to Mr. Williams, expressing more patience, etc. A
dreadful letter of my master to Mrs. Jewkes; which, by mistake, was
directed to me; and one to me, directed by like mistake to her; and very
free reflections of mine upon both. The concern I expressed for Mr.
Williams's being taken in, deceived, and ruined. An account of Mrs.
Jewkes's glorying in her wicked fidelity. A sad description I gave of
Monsieur Colbrand, a person he sent down to assist Mrs. Jewkes in
watching me. How Mr. Williams was arrested, and thrown into gaol; and
the concern I expressed upon it; and my free reflections on my master for
it. A projected contrivance of mine, to get away out of the window, and
by the back-door; and throwing by petticoat and handkerchief into the
pond to amuse them, while I got off: An attempt that had like to have
ended very dreadfully for me! My further concern for Mr. Williams's
ruin, on my account: And, lastly, my over-hearing Mrs. Jewkes brag of her
contrivance to rob Mr. Williams, in order to get at my papers; which,
however, he preserved, and sent safe to you.'

These, down to the execution of my unfortunate plot to escape, are, to
the best of my remembrance, the contents of the papers, which this
merciless woman seized: For, how badly I came off, and what followed, I
still have safe, as I hope, sewed in my under-coat, about my hips.

In vain were all my prayers and tears to her, to get her not to shew them
to my master. For she said, It had now come out, why I affected to be so
much alone; and why I was always writing. And she thought herself happy,
she said, she had found these; for often and often had she searched every
place she could think of, for writings, to no purpose before. And she
hoped, she said, there was nothing in them by what any body might see;