I see at the window, that visitors are
come; for there is a chariot and six horses, the company gone out of it,
and three footmen on horseback; and I think the chariot has coronets.
Who can it be, I wonder?--But here I will stop, for I suppose I shall
soon know.
Good sirs! how unlucky this is! What shall I do!--Here is Lady Davers
come, her own self! and my kind protector a great, great many miles off!
--Mrs. Jewkes, out of breath, comes and tells me this, and says, she is
inquiring for my master and me. She asked her, it seemed, naughty lady
as she is, if I was whored yet! There's a word for a lady's mouth! Mrs.
Jewkes says, she knew not what to answer. And my lady said, She is not
married, I hope? And said she, I said, No: because you have not owned it
yet publicly. My lady said, That was well enough. Said I, I will run
away, Mrs. Jewkes; and let the chariot go to the bottom of the elm-walk,
and I will steal out of the door unperceived: But she is inquiring for
you, madam, replied she, and I said you was within, but going out; and
she said, she would see you presently, as soon as she could have
patience. What did she call me? said I. The creature, madam; I will see
the creature, said she, as soon as I can have patience.
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