Poor Mrs. Jewkes, said
my master, and laughed most heartily.
This talk we had whilst we were undressing. So she and her woman lay
together in the room my master lay in before I was happy.
I said, Dear sir, pray, in the morning let me lock myself up in the
closet, as soon as you rise; and not be called down for ever so much; for
I am afraid to see her ladyship: And I will employ myself about my
journal, while these things are in my head. Don't be afraid, my dear,
said he: Am not I with you?
Mrs. Jewkes pitied me for what I had undergone in the day; and I said, We
won't make the worst of it to my dear master, because we won't exasperate
where we would reconcile: but, added I, I am much obliged to you, Mrs.
Jewkes, and I thank you. Said my master, I hope she did not beat your
lady, Mrs. Jewkes? Not much, sir, said she; but I believe I saved my
lady once: Yet, added she, I was most vexed at the young lord. Ay, Mrs.
Jewkes, said my master, let me know his behaviour. I can chastise him,
though I cannot my sister, who is a woman; let me therefore know the part
he acted.
Nothing, my dear sir, said I, but impertinence, if I may so say, and
foolishness, that was very provoking; but I spared him not; and so there
is no room, sir, for your anger.
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