"Since my last return to his house, that act of parliament passed,
by which he was enabled to pay his debts, and, among the rest, a
thousand pounds of my contracting, the only burden of that kind I
ever entailed upon him, exclusive of my pin-money, which was never
regularly paid; nor would he have been subject to this, had he
not, by his persecution and pursuit, exposed me to an extraordinary
expense. I have also had it in my power to reward some of my
faithful Abigails; in particular, to relieve from extreme distress
that maid to whom, as I have already observed, Lord B-- granted an
annuity, which she had sold: so that she was reduced to the most
abject poverty; and I found her in a dismal hole, with two infants
perishing for want; a spectacle which drew tears from my eyes, and
indeed could not but make deep impression upon a heart like mine,
which the misery of my fellow-creatures never failed to melt.
"Nor did I upon this occasion forget the attachment and fidelity
of my other woman Mrs. S--, who, hearing I was robbed in my passage
through Flanders, had generously relinquished the allowance I had
settled upon her at parting.
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