aris, my benefactor, and indeed my deliverer.

I confess it was an agreeable surprise to me, and I was exceeding glad
to see him, who was so honourable and so kind to me, and who indeed had
saved my life. As soon as he saw me he ran to me, took me in his arms,
and kissed me with a freedom that he never offered to take with me
before. "Dear Madam ----," says he, "I am glad to see you safe in this
country; if you had stayed two days longer in Paris you had been
undone." I was so glad to see him that I could not speak a good while,
and I burst out into tears without speaking a word for a minute; but I
recovered that disorder, and said, "The more, sir, is my obligation to
you that saved my life;" and added, "I am glad to see you here, that I
may consider how to balance an account in which I am so much your
debtor." "You and I will adjust that matter easily," says he, "now we
are so near together. Pray where do you lodge?" says he.

"In a very honest, good house," said I, "where that gentleman, your
friend, recommended me," pointing to the merchant in whose house we then
were.

"And where you may lodge too, sir," says the gentleman, "if it suits
with your business and your other conveniency."

"With all my heart," says he. "Then, madam," adds he, turning to me, "I
shall be near you, and have time to tell you a story which will be very
long, and yet many ways very pleasant to you; how troublesome that
devilish fellow, the Jew, has been to me on your account, and what a
hellish snare he had laid for you, if he could have found you."

"I shall have leisure too, sir," said I, "to tell you all my adventures
since that, which have not been a few, I assure you."

In short, he took up his lodgings in the same house where I lodged, and
the room he lay in opened, as he was wishing it would, just opposite to
my lodging-room, so we could almost call out of bed to one another; and
I was not at all shy of him on that score, for I believed him perfectly
honest, and so indeed he was; and if he had not, that article was at
present no part of my concern.

It was not till two or three days, and after his first hurries of
business were over, that we began to enter into the history of our
affairs on every side, but when we began, it took up all our
conversation for almost a fortnight. First, I gave him a particular
account of everything that happened material upon my voyage, and how we
were driven into Harwich by a very terrible storm; ho