"Harassed by this insufferable behaviour, I communicated my case
to Dr. S-- and his lady, intimating that I neither could nor would
expose myself any longer to such usage. The doctor exhorted me to
bear my fate with patience; and Mrs. S-- was silent on the subject;
so that I still hesitated between staying and going, when the
doctor, being one night at supper, happened to have some words
with my lord, who was so violently transported with passion, that
I was actually afraid of going to bed with him; and next morning,
when he awakened, there was such an expression of frantic wildness
in his countenance, that I imagined he was actually distracted.
"This alarming circumstance confirmed me in my resolution of decamping;
and I accordingly moved my quarters to a house in Sackville-street,
where I had lodged when I was a widow. From thence I sent a message
to the duke of L--, desiring he would make my lord acquainted with
the place of my abode, my reasons for removing, and my intention
to defend myself against all his attempts. The first night of this
separation I went to bed by myself with as much pleasure as a man
would feel in going to bed to his mistress whom he had long solicited in
vain, so rejoiced was I to be delivered from my obnoxious bedfellow!
"From these lodgings I soon moved to Brook-street, where I had
not long enjoyed the sweets of my escape, when I was importuned
to return, by a new steward whom my lord had engaged in the room
of H--.
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