Be this as it will, I honour the gentleman for his
plan, which was ingeniously contrived, and artfully conducted; but
I happened to have too much address for him in the sequel, cunning
as he was, though at first I did not perceive his drift; and his
lordship was much less likely to comprehend his meaning.
"Immediately after this new accommodation, I was carried to a
country house belonging to my lord, and was simple enough to venture
myself, unattended by any servant on whose integrity I could depend,
in the hands of his lordship, and H--, whose villainy I always
dreaded; though, at this time, my apprehensions were considerably
increased by recollecting, that it was not his interest to let
me live in the house, lest his conduct should be inquired into;
and by remembering that the very house to which we were going had
been twice burnt down in a very short space of time, not without
suspicion of his having been the incendiary, on account of some box
of writings which was lost in the conflagration. True it is, this
imputation was never made good; and, perhaps, he was altogether
innocent of the charge, which nevertheless affected my spirits in
such a manner, as rendered me the most miserable of all mortals.
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