mother was a person of great art and address, and not altogether so nice
in the particular between himself and miss, as she ought to have been:
That, particularly, when she had reason to find him unsettled and wild,
and her daughter in more danger from him, than he was from her, yet she
encouraged their privacies; and even, at last, when she had reason
to apprehend, from their being surprised together, in a way not so
creditable to the lady, that she was far from forbidding their private
meetings; on the contrary, that, on a certain time, she had set one that
had formerly been her footman, and a half-pay officer, her relation, to
watch an opportunity, and to frighten him into a marriage with the lady:
That, accordingly, when they had surprised him in her chamber, just
as he had been let in, they drew their swords upon him, and threatened
instantly to kill him, if he did not promise marriage on the spot; and
that they had a parson ready below stairs, as he found afterwards: That
then he suspected, from some strong circumstances, that miss was in the
plot; which so enraged him, with their menaces together, that he drew,
and stood upon his defence; and was so much in earnest, that the man he
pushed into the arm, and disabled; and pressing pretty forward upon
the other, as he retreated, he rushed in upon him near the top of the
stairs, and pushed him down one pair, and he was much hurt by the fall:
Not but that, he said, he might have paid for his rashness; but that
the business of his antagonists was rather to frighten than to kill
him: That, upon this, in the sight of the old lady, the parson she had
provided, and her other daughters, he went out of their house, with
bitter execrations against them all.

That after this, designing to break off all correspondence with the
whole family, and miss too, she found means to engage him to give her
a meeting at Woodstock, in order to clear herself: That, poor lady! she
was there obliged, naughty creature as he was! to make herself quite
guilty of a worse fault, in order to clear herself of a lighter:
That they afterwards met at Godstow often, at Woodstock, and every
neighbouring place to Oxford, where he was then studying, as it proved,
guilty lessons, instead of improving ones; till, at last, the effect
of their frequent interviews grew too obvious to be concealed: That the
young lady then, when she was not fit to be seen, for the credit of the
family, was confined, and all manne