tinued he, as I would not publicly declare my marriage here,
I hope she won't come near us till we are in Bedfordshire; and then,
when she knows we are married, she will keep away, if she is not willing
to be reconciled; for she dares not, surely, come to quarrel with me,
when she knows it is done; for that would have a hateful and wicked
appearance, as if she would try to make differences between man and
wife.--But we will have no more of this subject, nor talk of any thing,
added he, that shall give concern to my dearest. And so he changed the
talk to a more pleasing subject, and said the kindest and most soothing
things in the world.

When we came home, which was about dinner-time, he was the same
obliging, kind gentleman; and, in short, is studious to shew, on every
occasion, his generous affection to me. And, after dinner, he told
me, he had already written to his draper, in town, to provide him new
liveries; and to his late mother's mercer, to send him down patterns of
the most fashionable silks, for my choice. I told him, I was unable to
express my gratitude for his favours and generosity: And as he knew best
what befitted his own rank and condition, I would wholly remit myself
to his good pleasure. But, by all his repeated bounties to me, of so
extraordinary a nature, I could not but look forward with awe upon the
condition to which he had exalted me; and now I feared I should hardly
be able to act up to it in such a manner as should justify the choice he
had condescended to make: But that, I hoped, I should have not only his
generous allowance for my imperfections, which I could only assure him
should not be wilful ones, but his kind instructions; and that as often
as he observed any part of my conduct such as he could not entirely
approve, he would let me know it; and I would think his reproofs of
beginning faults the kindest and most affectionate things in the world
because they would keep me from committing greater; and be a means to
continue to me the blessing of his good opinion.

He answered me in the kindest manner; and assured me, That nothing
should ever lie upon his mind which he would not reveal, and give me an
opportunity either of convincing him, or being convinced myself.

He then asked me, When I should be willing to go to the Bedfordshire
house? I said, whenever he pleased. We will come down hither again
before the winter, said he, if you please, in order to cultivate the
acquaintance you have