Jervis I intended to do; and I said,
It is now Monday, Mrs. Jervis, and I am to go away on Thursday morning
betimes; so, though I know you don't doubt my honesty, I beg you will
look over my poor matters, and let every one have what belongs to them;
for, said I, you know I am resolved to take with me only what I can
properly call my own.
Said she, (I did not know her drift then; to be sure she meant well; but
I did not thank her for it, when I did know it,) Let your things be
brought down in the green-room, and I will do any thing you will have me
do.
With all my heart, said I, green-room or any where; but I think you might
step up, and see 'em as they lie.
However, I fetched 'em down, and laid them in three parcels, as before;
and, when I had done, I went down to call her up to look at them.
Now, it seems, she had prepared my master for this scene, unknown to me;
and in this green-room was a closet, with a sash-door, and a curtain
before it; for there she puts her sweet-meats and such things; and she
did it, it seems, to turn his heart, as knowing what I intended, I
suppose that he should make me take the things; for, if he had, I should
have made money of them, to help us when we got together; for, to be
sure, I could never have appeared in them.
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