tour--you are a polite gentleman--a very pretty gentleman--I wish
you a great deal of joy, and am your very humble servant."

So saying, he left my father in a situation easily imagined. However,
be did not long hesitate; for, being perfectly well acquainted
with his father's disposition, he did not doubt that he was glad
of this pretence to get rid of him; and his resolves being as
invariable as the laws of the Medes and Persians, he know it would
be to no purpose to attempt him by prayers and entreaties; so without
any farther application, he betook himself, with his disconsolate
bedfellow to a farm-house, where an old servant of his mother dwelt:
there they remained some time in a situation but ill adapted to
the elegance of their desires and tenderness of their love; which
nevertheless my father chose to endure, rather than supplicate
an unnatural and inflexible parent but my mother, foreseeing the
inconveniences to which she must have been exposed, bad she been
delivered in this place (and her pregnancy was very far advanced),
without communicating her design to her husband, went in disguise
to the house of my grand. father, hoping that her tears and condition
would move him to compassion, and reconcile him to an event which
was now irrecoverably past.

She found means to deceive the servants, and get introduced as
an unfortunate lady, who wanted to complain of some matrimonial
grievances, it being my grandfather's particular province to
decide in all cases of scandal. She was accordingly admitted into
his presence, where, discovering herself, she fell at his feet,
and in the most affecting manner implored his forgiveness; at the
same the same time representing the danger that threatened not
only her life, but that of his own grandchild, which was about to