She said, he fancied I thought of
somebody else, or I could never be so insensible. I assured her, as I
could do very safely, that there was not a man on earth I wished to have:
and as to Mr. Williams, he might do better by far: and I had proposed so
much happiness in living with my poor father and mother, that I could not
think of any scheme of life with pleasure, till I had tried that. I
asked her for my money; and she said, it was above in her strong box, but
that I should have it to-morrow. All these things look well, as I said.
Mr. Williams would go home this night, though late, because he would
despatch a messenger to you with a letter he had proposed from himself,
and my packet. But pray don't encourage him, as I said; for he is much
too heady and precipitate as to this matter, in my way of thinking;
though, to be sure, he is a very good man, and I am much obliged to him.
Monday morning.
Alas-a-day! we have bad news from poor Mr. Williams. He has had a sad
mischance; fallen among rogues in his way home last night: but by good
chance has saved my papers. This is the account he gives of it to Mrs.
Jewkes:
'GOOD MRS. JEWKES,
'I have had a sore misfortune in going from you. When I had got as near
the town as the dam, and was going to cross the wooden bridge, two
fellows got hold of me, and swore bitterly they would kill me, if I did
not give them what I had.
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