He professes great zeal and affection to your service: and I find he
refers to a letter he sent me before, but which is not come to my hand.
I think there can be no treachery; for it is a particular friend at
Gainsborough, that I have ordered him to direct to; and this is come safe
to my hands by this means; for well I know, I durst trust nothing to
Brett, at the post-house here. This gives me a little pain; but I hope
all will end well, and we shall soon hear, if it be necessary to pursue
our former intentions. If it be, I will lose no time to provide a horse
for you, and another for myself; for I can never do either God or myself
better service, though I were to forego all my expectations for it here,
I am 'Your most faithful humble servant.'
'I was too free indeed with Mrs. Jewkes, led to it by her dissimulation,
and by her pretended concern to make me happy with you. I hinted, that I
would not have scrupled to have procured your deliverance by any means;
and that I had proposed to you, as the only honourable one, marriage with
me. But I assured her, though she would hardly believe me, that you
discouraged my application: which is too true! But not a word of the
back-door key, etc.'
Mrs. Jewkes continues still sullen and ill-natured, and I am almost
afraid to speak to her.
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