eeper of the house, or rather
she who represented her,--Hannah. So I got acquainted more closely with
Hannah, would go into her parlour, and talk with her before Sarah came.
This began one day when I was awaiting Sarah by her asking me if I
would cast up a column of figures, nearly the whole of which was in five
shillings and seven and sixes. I did it once, then I did it a second
time. Going in one day just afterwards she stepped out from her parlour,
and thanked me. I stepped into the parlour, and got into the custom
of doing so,--if ladies were not in there,--but there was a good
introduction business done, as will be seen, and oftentimes ladies were
waiting there till their swains arrived.

One day she cooked a luncheon for me, once a breakfast, the latter was
during the time I had quarrelled with Sarah, and took another woman to
sleep with me there. I complimented her on her cooking, she was half
groggy (as she often was), and was very talkative. "Lord," said she,
"you have tasted my dinners many a times." "Nonsense." "Yes you have."

"Where?" "Do you recollect a ball at------, where all the servants were
allowed to look at the table before supper, and your coming down with
Mr.------, and we all scuffling back?" "Perfectly." "Well I cooked that
supper." Then it turned out that she had been cook at a house where
I was a constant visitor, she had recognized me at once, but did not
recollect my name, or so she said,--indeed it was not probable that she
knew it. She had been caught with a soldier in the house, and had been
kicked out.

Now by chance of fortune she was keeper of a baudy house, and her
soldier visited her there when in London,--he was a Guardsman,--and she
supplied him with money, and lots he had, for she robbed her Mistress
wholesale of the baudy house profits.

Hannah had two sisters; one a married woman with a bad husband, and
several children. She often came and assisted at J.... s Street,
sometimes acting as chambermaid,--and about two years after this period
of my history, a second one appeared who had been a housemaid, and who
had I suppose also lost her character. A pretty blue-eyed girl about
twenty years old with a cast in her eye, and a lovely leg up to within
a few inches of her cunt. I never saw higher, and shall have more to
say about her hereafter. Her name was, Susan--a sailor was said to be in
love with her.

Sarah at the end of some months asked me to give her five pounds, and
soon