Harry said, In the names of all your
servants, sir, I bless your honour, and your good lady: and it shall be
all our studies to deserve her ladyship's favours, as well as your
honour's. And so I gave every one five guineas, to rejoice, as I said,
in my happiness.
When I came to John, I said, I saw you before, John; but I again tell
you, I am glad to see you. He said, he was quite ashamed and confounded.
O, said I, forget every thing that's past, John!--Your dear good master
will, and so will I. For God has wonderfully brought about all these
things, by the very means I once thought most grievous. Let us,
therefore, look forward, and be only ashamed to commit faults for the
time to come: for they may not always be attended with like happy
consequences.
Arthur, said my master, I have brought you a mistress that is a great
gardener. She'll shew you a new way to plant beans: And never any body
had such a hand at improving a sun-flower as she!--O sir, sir, said I,
(but yet a little dashed,) all my improvements in every kind of thing are
owing to you, I am sure!--And so I think I was even with the dear man,
and yet appeared grateful before his servants. They withdrew, blessing
us both, as the rest had done. And then came in the postilion, and two
helpers, (for my master has both here, and at Lincolnshire, fine hunting
horses; and it is the chief sport he takes delight in,) as also the
scullion-boy: And I said, How do all of you? And how dost do, Tommy? I
hope you're very good.
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