ything, and wished there was a possibility for her to see me, that she
might open her mind with the same freedom as formerly, and have my
advice upon some particular affairs; and such-like discourse.

It was a pretty while before I heard from Amy again, and when I did, the
letter was in much the same strain as the former, excepting that things
were coming more to a crisis; for she told me in it that her money was
so out, that is, lent as ready money to traders, and trusted for liquors
in her house, that if she did not go away this quarter, she should be
obliged to run away the next. I very much lamented her unfortunate case,
but that could be no assistance to her, as I had it not now in my power
to see her when I would, or give her what I pleased, as it had always
used to be; so all I could do was to wish her well, and leave her to
take care of herself.

About this time it was that I perceived my lord began to look very pale
and meagre, and I had a notion he was going into a consumption, but did
not dare tell him so, for fear he should say I was daily looking for his
death, and was now overjoyed that I saw a shadow of it; nevertheless, he
soon after began to find himself in a very bad state of health, for he
said to me one morning, that my care would not last long, for he
believed he was seized by a distemper it was impossible for him to get
over. "My lord," said I, "you do not do me justice in imagining anything
concerning me that does not tend to your own happiness, for if your body
is out of order, my mind suffers for it." Indeed, had he died then,
without making a will, it might have been well for me; but he was not so
near death as that; and, what was worse, the distemper, which proved a
consumption (which was occasioned chiefly by much study, watchings,
melancholy thoughts, wilful and obstinate neglect of taking care of his
body, and such like things), held him nine weeks and three days after
this, before it carried him off.

He now took country lodgings, most delightfully situated both for air
and prospect, and had a maid and man to attend him. I begged on my knees
to go with him, but could not get that favour granted; for, if I could,
it might have been the means of restoring me to his favour, but our
breach was too wide to be thoroughly reconciled, though I used all the
endearing ways I had ever had occasion for to creep into his favour.

Before he went out of town he locked and sealed up every room in the
h