His behaviour among us was perfectly civil and obliging.
He spake little to the children the first day, being employed
(as he afterwards told them) in observing their carriage and
seeing how he liked them: afterwards he was very free, and
expressed great kindness to them all.

He was strangely scandalised at the poverty of our furniture,
and much more at the meanness of the children's habit.
He always talked more freely with your sisters of our
circumstances than with me; and told them he wondered what his
brother had done with his income, for 'twas visible he had not
spent it in furnishing his house, or clothing his family.

We had a little talk together sometimes, but it was not often we
could hold a private conference, and he was very shy of speaking
anything relating to the children before your father, or indeed
of any other matter. I informed him, as far as I handsomely
could, of our losses, etc., for I was afraid that he should
think I was about to beg of him; but the girls, I believe, told
him everything they could think on.

He was particularly pleased with Patty; and one morning, before
Mr. Wesley came down, he asked me if I was willing to let Patty
go and stay a year or two with him at London? "Sister," says
he, "I have endeavoured already to make one of your children
easy while she lives, and if you please to trust Patty with me,
I will endeavour to make her so too." Whatever others may
think, I thought this a generous offer, and the more so, because
he had done so much for Sukey and Hetty. I expressed my
gratitude as well as I could, and would have had him speak with
your father, but he would not himself--he left that to me; nor
did he ever mention it to Mr. Wesley till the evening before he
left us.

He always behaved himself very decently at family prayers, and
in your father's absence said grace for us before and after
meat. Nor did he ever interrupt our privacy, but went into his
own chamber when we went into ours.

He staid from Thursday to the Wednesday after, then he left us
to go to Scarborough, from whence he returned the Saturday
se'nnight, intending to stay with us a few days; but finding
your sisters gone the day before to Lincoln, he would leave us
on Sunday morning, for he said he might s