my
managed my daughter too very well, though by a third hand.

My amour with my Lord ---- began now to draw to an end, and indeed,
notwithstanding his money, it had lasted so long that I was much more
sick of his lordship than he could be of me. He grew old and fretful,
and captious, and I must add, which made the vice itself begin to grow
surfeiting and nauseous to me, he grew worse and wickeder the older he
grew, and that to such degree as is not fit to write of, and made me so
weary of him that upon one of his capricious humours, which he often
took occasion to trouble me with, I took occasion to be much less
complaisant to him than I used to be; and as I knew him to be hasty, I
first took care to put him into a little passion, and then to resent it,
and this brought us to words, in which I told him I thought he grew sick
of me; and he answered in a heat that truly so he was. I answered that I
found his lordship was endeavouring to make me sick too; that I had met
with several such rubs from him of late, and that he did not use me as
he used to do, and I begged his lordship he would make himself easy.
This I spoke with an air of coldness and indifference such as I knew he
could not bear; but I did not downright quarrel with him and tell him I
was sick of him too, and desire him to quit me, for I knew that would
come of itself; besides, I had received a great deal of handsome usage
from him, and I was loth to have the breach be on my side, that he might
not be able to say I was ungrateful.

[Illustration: THE AMOUR DRAWS TO AN END

_I told him I thought he grew sick of me; and he answered in a heat that
truly so he was_]

But he put the occasion into my hands, for he came no more to me for two
months; indeed I expected a fit of absence, for such I had had several
times before, but not for above a fortnight or three weeks at most;
but after I had stayed a month, which was longer than ever he kept away
yet, I took a new method with him, for I was resolved now it should be
in my power to continue or not, as I thought fit. At the end of a month,
therefore, I removed, and took lodgings at Kensington Gravel Pits, at
that part next to the road to Acton, and left nobody in my lodgings but
Amy and a footman, with proper instructions how to behave when his
lordship, being come to himself, should think fit to come again, which I
knew he would.

About the end of two months, he came in the dusk of the evening as
usual. The f