Should I be indulged in this
particular, I will engage to return her safe, and even to
accompany her to Gloucester, where, if you will give me leave, I
will present to you, under another name,
Dear Madam,
Your most affectionate
Humble servant,
And penitent,
LYDIA MELFORD
Oct. 14.
To Mrs MARY JONES, at Brambleton-hall.
O MARY JONES! MARY JONES!
I have met with so many axidents, suprisals, and terrifications,
that I am in a pafeck fantigo, and I believe I shall never be my
own self again. Last week I was dragged out of a river like a
drowned rat, and lost a bran-new night-cap, with a sulfer
stayhook, that cost me a good half-a-crown, and an odd shoe of
green gallow monkey; besides wetting my cloaths and taring my
smuck, and an ugly gash made in the back part of my thy, by the
stump of a tree -- To be sure Mr Clinker tuck me out of the cox;
but he left me on my back in the water, to go to the 'squire; and
I mought have had a watry grave, if a millar had not brought me
to the dry land -- But, O! what choppings and changes girl -- The
player man that came after Miss Liddy, and frightened me with a
beard at Bristol Well, is now matthew-murphy'd into a fine young
gentleman, son and hare of 'squire Dollison -- We are all together
in the same house, and all parties have agreed to the match, and
in a fortnite the surrymony will be performed.
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