His return on Saturday, with the dread he put me in, on the offering to
search me for my papers which followed those he had got by Mrs. Jewkes's
means. My being forced to give them up. His carriage to me after he had
read them, and questions to me. His great kindness to me on seeing the
dangers I had escaped and the troubles I had undergone. And how I
unseasonably, in the midst of his goodness, expressed my desire of being
sent to you, having the intelligence of a sham-marriage, from the gipsy,
in my thoughts. How this enraged him, and made him turn me that very
Sunday out of his house, and send me on my way to you. The particulars
of my journey, and my grief at parting with him; and my free
acknowledgment to you, that I found, unknown to myself, I had begun to
love him, and could not help it. His sending after me, to beg my return;
but yet generously leaving me at my liberty, when he might have forced me
to return whether I was willing or not. My resolution to oblige him, and
fatiguing journey back. My concern for his illness on my return. His
kind reception of me, and shewing me his sister Davers's angry letter,
against his behaviour to me, desiring him to set me free, and threatening
to renounce him as a brother, if he should degrade himself by marrying
me.
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