The breakfasting-time, the preparations for dinner, and sometimes to
entertain your chosen friends, and the company you shall bring home with
you, gentlemen, if not ladies, and the supperings, will fill up a great
part of the day in a very necessary manner.
And, may be, sir, now and then a good-humoured lady will drop in; and, I
hope, if they do, I shall so behave myself, as not to add to the disgrace
you will have brought upon yourself: for, indeed, I will be very
circumspect, and try to be as discreet as I can; and as humble too, as
shall be consistent with your honour.
Cards, 'tis true, I can play at, in all the usual games that our sex
delight in; but this I am not fond of, nor shall ever desire to play,
unless to induce such ladies, as you may wish to see, not to abandon your
house for want of an amusement they are accustomed to.
Music, which our good lady taught me, will fill up some intervals, if I
should have any.
And then, sir, you know, I love reading and scribbling; and though all
the latter will be employed in the family accounts, between the servants
and me, and me and your good self: yet reading, at proper times, will be
a pleasure to me, which I shall be unwilling to give up, for the best
company in the world, except yours.
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