Even John Arnold, whom I confided in, and favoured more than any,
has proved an execrable villain; and shall meet his reward for it.
'As to that college novice, Williams, I need not bid you take care he
sees not this painted bauble: for I have ordered Mr. Shorter, my
attorney, to throw him instantly into gaol, on an action of debt, for
money he has had of me, which I had intended never to carry to account
against him; for I know all his rascally practices, besides what you
write me of his perfidious intrigue with that girl, and his acknowledged
contrivances for her escape; when he knew not, for certain, that I
designed her any mischief; and when, if he had been guided by a sense of
piety, or compassion for injured innocence, as he pretends, he would have
expostulated with me, as his function, and my friendship for him, might
have allowed him. But to enter into a vile intrigue with the amiable
gewgaw, to favour her escape in so base a manner, (to say nothing of his
disgraceful practices against me, in Sir Simon Darnford's family, of
which Sir Simon himself has informed me), is a conduct that, instead of
preferring the ungrateful wretch, as I had intended, shall pull down upon
him utter ruin.
'Monsieur Colbrand, my trusty Swiss, will obey you without reserve, if my
other servants refuse.
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