light, she makes her kind master and benefactor, a devil incarnate--(O
how people will sometimes, thought I, call themselves by their right
names!)--And all this, added he, I won't hear; and so I am resolved she
shall return to the distresses and poverty she was taken from; and let
her be careful how she uses my name with freedom, when she is gone from
me.

I was brightened up at once with these welcome words, and I threw myself
upon my knees at his feet, with a most sincere glad heart; and I said,
May your honour be for ever blessed for your resolution! Now I shall be
happy. And permit me, on my bended knees, to thank you for all the
benefits and favours you have heaped upon me; for the opportunities I
have had of improvement and learning, through my good lady's means, and
yours. I will now forget all your honour has offered me: and I promise
you, that I will never let your name pass my lips, but with reverence and
gratitude: and so God Almighty bless your honour, for ever and ever!
Amen.

Then rising from my knees, I went away with another-guise sort of heart
than I came into his presence with: and so I fell to writing this letter.
And thus all is happily over.

And now, my dearest father and mother, expect to see soon your poor
daughter, with an humble and dutiful mind, returned to you: and don't
fear but I know how to be as happy with you as ever: for I will be in the
loft, as I used to do; and pray let my little bed be got ready; and I
have a small matter of money, which will buy me a suit of clothes, fitter
for my condition than what I have; and I will get Mrs. Mumford to help me
to some needle-work: and fear not that I shall be a burden to you, if my
health continues. I know I shall be blessed, if not for my own sake, for