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example.

About ten days afterwards, as we were sitting at dinner with two
gentlemen, one of the footmen came to the door, and said, "My lady, here
is a gentlewoman at the door who desires to speak with you: she says her
name is Mrs. Amy."

I no sooner heard her name, but I was ready to swoon away, but I ordered
the footman to call Isabel, and ask the gentlewoman to walk up with her
into my dressing-room; which he immediately did, and there I went to
have my first interview with her. She kissed me for joy when she saw
me, and I sent Isabel downstairs, for I was in pain till I had some
private conversation with my old confidante.

There was not much ceremony between us, before I told her all the
material circumstances that had happened in her absence, especially
about the girl's imprisonments which she had contrived, and how she had
got my letter at the Quaker's, the very day she had been there. "Well,"
says Amy, when I had told her all, "I find nothing is to ensue, if she
lives, but your ruin; you would not agree to her death, so I will not
make myself uneasy about her life; it might have been rectified, but you
were angry with me for giving you the best of counsel, viz., when I
proposed to murder her."

"Hussy," said I, in the greatest passion imaginable, "how dare you
mention the word murder? You wretch you, I could find in my heart, if my
husband and the company were gone, to kick you out of my house. Have you
not done enough to kill her, in throwing her into one of the worst jails
in England, where, you see, that Providence in a peculiar manner
appeared to her assistance. Away! thou art a wicked wretch; thou art a
murderer in the sight of God."

"I will say no more," says Amy, "but if I could have found her, after
thy friend the Quaker had discharged her out of the Marshalsea prison, I
had laid a scheme to have her taken up for a theft, and by that means
got her transported for fourteen years. She will be with you soon, I am
sure; I believe she is now in Holland."

While we were in this discourse, I found the gentlemen who dined with us
were going, so we came downstairs, and I went into the parlour to take
leave of them before their departure. When they were gone, my husband
told me he had been talking with them about taking upon him the title of
Count or Earl of ----, as he had told me of, and as an opportunity now
offered, he was going to put it in execution.

I told him I was so well settled, as not t