ken so ill that you cannot come out for that day, but that you
will not fail the next day; and the next day you shall neither come or
send, nor let us ever hear any more of you; for by that time you shall
be in Holland, if you please."

I could not but approve all his measures, seeing they were so well
contrived, and in so friendly a manner, for my benefit; and as he seemed
to be so very sincere, I resolved to put my life in his hands.
Immediately I went to my lodgings, and sent away Amy with such bundles
as I had prepared for my travelling. I also sent several parcels of my
fine furniture to the merchant's house to be laid up for me, and
bringing the key of the lodgings with me, I came back to his house. Here
we finished our matters of money, and I delivered into his hands seven
thousand eight hundred pistoles in bills and money, a copy of an
assignment on the townhouse of Paris for four thousand pistoles, at
three per cent. interest, attested, and a procuration for receiving the
interest half-yearly; but the original I kept myself.

I could have trusted all I had with him, for he was perfectly honest,
and had not the least view of doing me any wrong. Indeed, after it was
so apparent that he had, as it were, saved my life, or at least saved me
from being exposed and ruined--I say, after this, how could I doubt him
in anything?

When I came to him, he had everything ready as I wanted, and as he had
proposed. As to my money, he gave me first of all an accepted bill,
payable at Rotterdam, for four thousand pistoles, and drawn from Genoa
upon a merchant at Rotterdam, payable to a merchant at Paris, and
endorsed by him to my merchant; this, he assured me, would be punctually
paid; and so it was, to a day. The rest I had in other bills of
exchange, drawn by himself upon other merchants in Holland. Having
secured my jewels too, as well as I could, he sent me away the same
evening in a friend's coach, which he had procured for me, to St.
Germain, and the next morning to Rouen. He also sent a servant of his
own on horseback with me, who provided everything for me, and who
carried his orders to the captain of the ship, which lay about three
miles below Rouen, in the river, and by his directions I went
immediately on board. The third day after I was on board the ship went
away, and we were out at sea the next day after that; and thus I took my
leave of France, and got clear of an ugly business, which, had it gone
on, might hav