id I. Would you have me visit
the owners of the borrowed dresses in their own clothes? Surely, Mr.
Lovelace, you think I have either a very low, or a very confident mind.

Would I choose to go to London (for a very few days only) in order to
furnish myself with clothes?

Not at your expense, Sir, said I, in an angry tone.

I could not have appeared in earnest to him, in my displeasure at his
artful contrivances to get me away, if I were not occasionally to shew
my real fretfulness upon the destitute condition to which he has reduced
me. When people set out wrong together, it is very difficult to avoid
recriminations.

He wished he knew but my mind--That should direct him in his proposals,
and it would be his delight to observe it, whatever it were.

My mind is, that you, Sir, should leave me out of hand--How often must I
tell you so?

If I were any where but here, he would obey me, he said, if I insisted
upon it. But if I would assert my right, that would be infinitely
preferable, in his opinion, to any other measure but one (which he durst
only hint at:) for then admitting his visits, or refusing them, as I
pleased, (Granting a correspondence by letter only) it would appear
to all the world, that what I had done, was but in order to do myself
justice.

How often, Mr. Lovelace, must I repent, that I will not litigate with my
father? Do you think that my unhappy circumstances will alter my notions
of my own duty so far as I shall be enabled to perform it? How can I
obtain possession without litigation, and but by my trustees? One of
them will be against me; the other is abroad. Then the remedy proposed
by this measure, were I disposed to fall in with it, will require time
to bring it into effect; and what I want, is present independence, and
your immediate absence.

Upon his soul, the wretch swore, he did not think it safe, for the
reasons he had before given, to leave me here. He wished I would think
of some place, to which I should like to go. But he must take
the liberty to say, that he hoped his behaviour had not been so
exceptionable, as to make me so very earnest for his absence in the
interim: and the less, surely, as I was almost eternally shutting up
myself from him; although he presumed to assure me, that he never went
from me, but with a corrected heart, and with strengthened resolutions
of improving by my example.

Externally shutting myself up from you! repeated I--I hope, Sir, that I
expect to b