the best of gentlemen look, when they offer such things as are unworthy
of themselves, and put it into the power of their inferiors to be greater
than they!

I took a turn or two in the garden, but in sight of the house, for fear
of the worst; and breathed upon my hand to dry my eyes, because I would
not be too disobedient. My next shall tell you more.

Pray for me, my dear father and mother: and don't be angry I have not yet
run away from this house, so late my comfort and delight, but now my
terror and anguish. I am forced to break off hastily.
Your dutiful and honest DAUGHTER.



LETTER XII


DEAR MOTHER,

Well, I will now proceed with my sad story. And so, after I had dried my
eyes, I went in, and began to ruminate with myself what I had best to do.
Sometimes I thought I would leave the house and go to the next town, and
wait an opportunity to get to you; but then I was at a loss to resolve
whether to take away the things he had given me or no, and how to take
them away: Sometimes I thought to leave them behind me, and only go with
the clothes on my back, but then I had two miles and a half, and a byway,
to the town; and being pretty well dressed, I might come to some harm,
almost as bad as what I would run away from; and then may-be, thought I,
it will be reported, I have stolen something, and so was forced to run