all the dress was put on, I loaded it with jewels, and in
particular I placed the large breast-jewel which he had given me of a
thousand pistoles upon the front of the _tyhaia_, or head-dress, where
it made a most glorious show indeed. I had my own diamond necklace on,
and my hair was _tout brilliant_, all glittering with jewels.

His picture set with diamonds I had placed stitched to my vest, just, as
might be supposed, upon my heart (which is the compliment in such cases
among the Eastern people); and all being open at the breast, there was
no room for anything of a jewel there.

In this figure, Amy holding the train of my robe, I came down to him. He
was surprised, and perfectly astonished. He knew me, to be sure, because
I had prepared him, and because there was nobody else there but the
Quaker and Amy; but he by no means knew Amy, for she had dressed herself
in the habit of a Turkish slave, being the garb of my little Turk which
I had at Naples, as I have said; she had her neck and arms bare, was
bareheaded, and her hair braided in a long tassel hanging down her back;
but the jade could neither hold her countenance or her chattering
tongue, so as to be concealed long.

Well, he was so charmed with this dress that he would have me sit and
dine in it; but it was so thin, and so open before, and the weather
being also sharp, that I was afraid of taking cold; however, the fire
being enlarged and the doors kept shut, I sat to oblige him, and he
professed he never saw so fine a dress in his life. I afterwards told
him that my husband (so he called the jeweller that was killed) bought
it for me at Leghorn, with a young Turkish slave which I parted with at
Paris; and that it was by the help of that slave that I learned how to
dress in it, and how everything was to be worn, and many of the Turkish
customs also, with some of their language. This story agreeing with the
fact, only changing the person, was very natural, and so it went off
with him; but there was good reason why I should not receive any company
in this dress--that is to say, not in England. I need not repeat it; you
will hear more of it.

But when I came abroad I frequently put it on, and upon two or three
occasions danced in it, but always at his request.

We continued at the Quaker's lodgings for above a year; for now, making
as though it was difficult to determine where to settle in England to
his satisfaction, unless in London, which was not to mine, I