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in so many words, when he was not by, the sum of her mumbling and
muttering was, that this should have been done ten or a dozen years
before; that it would signify little now; that was to say, in short,
that her mistress was pretty near fifty, and too old to have any
children. I chid her; the Quaker laughed, complimented me upon my not
being so old as Amy pretended, that I could not be above forty, and
might have a house full of children yet. But Amy and I too knew better
than she how it was, for, in short, I was old enough to have done
breeding, however I looked; but I made her hold her tongue.

In the morning my Quaker landlady came and visited us before we were up,
and made us eat cakes and drink chocolate in bed; and then left us
again, and bid us take a nap upon it, which I believe we did. In short,
she treated us so handsomely, and with such an agreeable cheerfulness,
as well as plenty, as made it appear to me that Quakers may, and that
this Quaker did, understand good manners as well as any other people.

I resisted her offer, however, of treating us for the whole week; and I
opposed it so long that I saw evidently that she took it ill, and would
have thought herself slighted if we had not accepted it. So I said no
more, but let her go on, only told her I would be even with her; and so
I was. However, for that week she treated us as she said she would, and
did it so very fine, and with such a profusion of all sorts of good
things, that the greatest burthen to her was how to dispose of things
that were left; for she never let anything, how dainty or however large,
be so much as seen twice among us.

I had some servants indeed, which helped her off a little; that is to
say, two maids, for Amy was now a woman of business, not a servant, and
ate always with us. I had also a coachman and a boy. My Quaker had a
man-servant too, but had but one maid; but she borrowed two more of some
of her friends for the occasion, and had a man-cook for dressing the
victuals.

She was only at a loss for plate, which she gave me a whisper of; and I
made Amy fetch a large strong-box, which I had lodged in a safe hand, in
which was all the fine plate which I had provided on a worse occasion,
as is mentioned before; and I put it into the Quaker's hand, obliging
her not to use it as mine, but as her own, for a reason I shall mention
presently.

I was now my Lady ----, and I must own I was exceedingly pleased with
it; 'twas so big