particulars here.

However, notwithstanding this, I could not think of going away and
leaving this work so unfinished as Amy had threatened to do, and for the
folly of one child to leave the other to starve, or to stop my
determined bounty to the good family I have mentioned. So, in a word, I
committed the finishing it all to my faithful friend the Quaker, to whom
I communicated as much of the whole story as was needful to empower her
to perform what Amy had promised, and to make her talk so much to the
purpose, as one employed more remotely than Amy had been, needed to be.

To this purpose she had, first of all, a full possession of the money;
and went first to the honest man and his wife, and settled all the
matter with them; when she talked of Mrs. Amy, she talked of her as one
that had been empowered by the mother of the girls in the Indies, but
was obliged to go back to the Indies, and had settled all sooner if she
had not been hindered by the obstinate humour of the other daughter;
that she had left instructions with her for the rest; but that the other
had affronted her so much that she was gone away without doing anything
for her; and that now, if anything was done, it must be by fresh orders
from the East Indies.

I need not say how punctually my new agent acted; but, which was more,
she brought the old man and his wife, and my other daughter, several
times to her house, by which I had an opportunity, being there only as a
lodger, and a stranger, to see my other girl, which I had never done
before, since she was a little child.

The day I contrived to see them I was dressed up in a Quaker's habit,
and looked so like a Quaker, that it was impossible for them, who had
never seen me before, to suppose I had ever been anything else; also my
way of talking was suitable enough to it, for I had learned that long
before.

I have not time here to take notice what a surprise it was to me to see
my child; how it worked upon my affections; with what infinite struggle
I mastered a strong inclination that I had to discover myself to her;
how the girl was the very counterpart of myself, only much handsomer;
and how sweetly and modestly she behaved; how, on that occasion, I
resolved to do more for her than I had appointed by Amy, and the like.

It is enough to mention here, that as the settling this affair made way
for my going on board, notwithstanding the absence of my old agent Amy,
so, however, I left some hints for