And I can but wonder at the thoughtless
precipitancy with which most young folks run into this important change
of life!
So now, my dear parents, have I been brought to fix so near a day as next
Thursday; and this is Monday. O dear, it makes one out of breath almost
to think of it! This, though, was a great cut off; a whole week out of
ten days. I hope I am not too forward! I'm sure, if it obliges my dear
master, I am justified; for he deserves of me all things in my poor
power.
After this, he rode out on horseback, attended by Abraham, and did not
return till night. How by degrees things steal upon one! I thought even
this small absence tedious; and the more, as we expected him home to
dinner.--I wish I may not be too fond, and make him indifferent: But yet,
my dear father and mother, you were always fond of one another, and never
indifferent, let the world run as it would.
When he returned, he said, He had had a pleasant ride, and was led out to
a greater distance than he intended. At supper he told me, that he had a
great mind Mr. Williams should marry us; because, he said, it would shew
a thorough reconciliation on his part. But, said he, most generously, I
am apprehensive, from what passed between you, that the poor man will
take it hardly, and as a sort of insult, which I am not capable of.
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