eed at parting; for I told you he was a gentleman, and
that was all the benefit I had of his being so; that he used me very
handsomely and with good manners upon all occasions, even to the last,
only spent all I had, and left me to rob the creditors for something to
subsist on.

However, I did as he bade me, that you may be sure; and having thus
taken my leave of him, I never saw him more, for he found means to
break out of the bailiff's house that night or the next, and go over
into France, and for the rest of the creditors scrambled for it as well
as they could. How, I knew not, for I could come at no knowledge of
anything, more than this, that he came home about three o'clock in the
morning, caused the rest of his goods to be removed into the Mint, and
the shop to be shut up; and having raised what money he could get
together, he got over, as I said, to France, from whence I had one or
two letters from him, and no more. I did not see him when he came
home, for he having given me such instructions as above, and I having
made the best of my time, I had no more business back again at the
house, not knowing but I might have been stopped there by the
creditors; for a commission of bankrupt being soon after issued, they
might have stopped me by orders from the commissioners. But my
husband, having so dexterously got out of the bailiff's house by
letting himself down in a most desperate manner from almost the top of
the house to the top of another building, and leaping from thence,
which was almost two storeys, and which was enough indeed to have
broken his neck, he came home and got away his goods before the
creditors could come to seize; that is to say, before they could get
out the commission, and be ready to send their officers to take
possession.

My husband was so civil to me, for still I say he was much of a
gentleman, that in the first letter he wrote me from France, he let me
know where he had pawned twenty pieces of fine holland for #30, which
were really worth #90, and enclosed me the token and an order for the
taking them up, paying the money, which I did, and made in time above
#100 of them, having leisure to cut them and sell them, some and some,
to private families, as opportunity offered.

However, with all this, and all that I had secured before, I found,
upon casting things up, my case was very much altered, any my fortune
much lessened; for, including the hollands and a parcel of fine
muslins, whi