Jewkes, lay very ill, and was very destitute. He said, Send two,
my dear, if you please. Said I, Sir, I will never do any thing of this
kind without letting you know what I do. He most generously answered, I
shall then, perhaps, have you do less good than you would otherwise do,
from a doubt of me; though, I hope, your discretion, and my own temper,
which is not avaricious, will make such doubt causeless.
Now, my dear, continued he, I'll tell you how we will order this point,
to avoid even the shadow of uneasiness on one side, or doubt on the
other.
As to your father and mother, in the first place, they shall be quite out
of the question; for I have already determined in my mind about them; and
it is thus: They shall go down, if they and you think well of it, to my
little Kentish estate; which I once mentioned to you in such a manner, as
made you reject it with a nobleness of mind, that gave me pain then, but
pleasure since. There is a pretty little farm, and house, untenanted,
upon that estate, and tolerably well stocked, and I will further stock it
for them; for such industrious folks won't know how to live without some
employment; And it shall be theirs for both their lives, without paying
any rent; and I will allow them 50l.
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