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
both your sakes, who have, in all your trials and misfortunes, preserved
so much integrity as makes every body speak well of you both. But I hope
he will let good Mrs. Jervis give me a character, for fear it should be
thought that I was turned away for dishonesty.
And so, my dear parents, may you be blest for me, and I for you! And I
will always pray for my master and Mrs.
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