But my folly was the worst of all, because that
deprived me of my money: for had I had that, I believe I should have
ventured both the bull and the robbers.
Monday afternoon.
So, Mrs. Jewkes is returned from her visit: Well, said she, I would have
you set your heart at rest; for Mr. Williams will do very well again. He
is not half so bad as he fancied. O these scholars, said she, they have
not the hearts of mice! He has only a few scratches on his face; which,
said she, I suppose he got by grappling among the gravel at the bottom of
the dam, to try to find a hole in the ground, to hide himself from the
robbers. His shin and his knee are hardly to be seen to ail any thing.
He says in his letter, he was a frightful spectacle: He might be so,
indeed, when he first came in a doors; but he looks well enough now: and,
only for a few groans now and then, when he thinks of his danger, I see
nothing is the matter with him. So, Mrs. Pamela, said she, I would have
you be very easy about it. I am glad of it, said I, for all your jokes,
to Mrs. Jewkes.
Well, said she, he talks of nothing but you: and when I told him I would
fain have persuaded you to come with me, the man was out of his wits with
his gratitude to me: and so has laid open all his heart to me, and told
me all that has passed, and was contriving between you two.
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