y faithful
Quaker, but how to direct her to manage them was the great difficulty.

Amy had told them in so many words that she was not their mother, but
that she was the maid Amy, that carried them to their aunt's; that she
and their mother went over to the East Indies to seek their fortune, and
that there good things had befallen them, and that their mother was very
rich and happy; that she (Amy) had married in the Indies, but being now
a widow, and resolving to come over to England, their mother had obliged
her to inquire them out, and do for them as she had done; and that now
she was resolved to go back to the Indies again; but that she had orders
from their mother to do very handsomely by them; and, in a word, told
them she had L2000 apiece for them, upon condition that they proved
sober, and married suitably to themselves, and did not throw themselves
away upon scoundrels.

The good family in whose care they had been, I had resolved to take more
than ordinary notice of; and Amy, by my order, had acquainted them with
it, and obliged my daughters to promise to submit to their government,
as formerly, and to be ruled by the honest man as by a father and
counsellor; and engaged him to treat them as his children. And to oblige
him effectually to take care of them, and to make his old age
comfortable both to him and his wife, who had been so good to the
orphans, I had ordered her to settle the other L2000, that is to say,
the interest of it, which was L120 a year, upon them, to be theirs for
both their lives, but to come to my two daughters after them. This was
so just, and was so prudently managed by Amy, that nothing she ever did
for me pleased me better. And in this posture, leaving my two daughters
with their ancient friend, and so coming away to me (as they thought to
the East Indies), she had prepared everything in order to her going over
with me to Holland; and in this posture that matter stood when that
unhappy girl, who I have said so much of, broke in upon all our
measures, as you have heard, and, by an obstinacy never to be conquered
or pacified, either with threats or persuasions, pursued her search
after me (her mother) as I have said, till she brought me even to the
brink of destruction; and would, in all probability, have traced me out
at last, if Amy had not, by the violence of her passion, and by a way
which I had no knowledge of, and indeed abhorred, put a stop to her, of
which I cannot enter into the