For my own part, I conducted the
family; and, as I endeavoured to please and make everybody happy,
I had the good fortune to succeed. Mr. B-- told me, that before
he saw me, he heard I was a fool; but finding, as he was pleased
to say, that I had been egregiously misrepresented, he courted my
friendship, and a correspondence commenced between us. Indeed,
it was impossible for any person to know him, without entertaining
the utmost esteem and veneration for his virtue.
"After I had lived some time in this agreeable retreat, my husband
began to make a bustle. He sent a message, demanding me from Lord B--;
then came in person, with his nightcap in his pocket, intending to
have stayed all night, had he been asked, and attended by a relation,
whom he assured that I was very fond of him, and detained by force
from his arms. Finding himself disappointed in his expectations,
he commenced a law-suit against Lord B--, though not for a divorce,
as we desired, but with a view to reclaim me as his lawful wife.
His lawyers, however, attempted to prove criminal conversation, in
hopes of extorting money from my lover.
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