He inquires into the character of a servant, after he
has lived two years in his family, and is so ridiculously stocked
with vanity and self-conceit, that, notwithstanding my assurance
before, and the whole series of my conduct since our marriage, which
ought to have convinced him of my dislike, he is still persuaded,
that, at bottom, I must admire and be enamoured of his agreeable
person and accomplishments, and that I would not fail to manifest
my love, were I not spirited against him by his own relations.
Perhaps it might be their interest to foment the misunderstanding
betwixt us; but really they give themselves no trouble about our
affairs; and, so far as I know them, are a very good sort of people.
On the whole, I think I may with justice pronounce my precious
yoke-fellow a trifling, teasing, insufferable, inconsistent creature.
"With the little money which remained of what I had received from
his lordship for house-keeping, I transported myself to Flanders,
and arrived in Ghent a few days after our troops were quartered
in that city, which was so much crowded with these new visitants,
that I should have found it impracticable to procure a lodging,
had I not been accommodated by Lord B--, the duke of A--'s youngest
brother, who very politely gave me up his own.
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