all I say, madam? said I. Nothing at all, replied she; let him
expect his dearest love, and be disappointed; it is but adding a
few more hours, and he will make every one a day, in his amorous
account.--Mrs. Jewkes coming nearer me, and my lady walking about the
room, being then at the end, I whispered, Let Robert stay at the elms;
I'll have a struggle for't by and by.

As much married as I! repeated she.--The insolence of the creature!--And
so she walked about the room, talking to herself, to her woman, and
now and then to me; but seeing I could not please her, I thought I
had better be silent. And then it was, Am I not worthy an answer? If
I speak, said I, your ladyship is angry at me, though ever so
respectfully; if I do not, I cannot please: Would your ladyship tell me
but how I shall oblige you, and I would do it with all my heart.

Confess the truth, said she, that thou art an undone creature; hast been
in bed with thy master; and art sorry for it, and for the mischief
thou hast occasioned between him and me; and then I'll pity thee, and
persuade him to pack thee off, with a hundred or two of guineas; and
some honest farmer may take pity of thee, and patch up thy shame, for
the sake of the money; and if nobody will have thee, thou must vow
penitence, and be as humble as I once thought thee.

I was quite sick at heart, at all this passionate extravagance, and to
be hindered from being where was the desire of my soul, and afraid too
of incurring my dear master's displeasure; and, as I sat, I saw it was
no hard matter to get out of the window into the front yard, the parlour
being even with the yard, and so have a fair run for it; and after I had
seen my lady at the other end of the room again, in her walks, having
not pulled down the sash, when I spoke to Mrs. Jewkes, I got upon the
seat, and whipped out in a minute, and ran away as hard as I could
drive, my lady calling after me to return, and her woman at the other
window: But two of her servants appearing at her crying out, and she
bidding them to stop me, I said, Touch me at your peril, fellows!
But their lady's commands would have prevailed on them, had not Mr.
Colbrand, who, it seems, had been kindly ordered, by Mrs. Jewkes, to be
within call, when she saw how I was treated, come up, and put on one of
his deadly fierce looks, the only time, I thought, it ever became him,
and said, He would chine the man, that was his word, who offered to
touch his lady; and