ift, but whenever anything offered for her, we would do as we saw
cause; that, in the meantime, Amy was not poor, that she had saved
together between seven and eight hundred pounds. By the way, I did not
tell him how, and by what wicked ways she got it, but that she had it;
and that was enough to let him know she would never be in want of us.

My spouse was exceedingly pleased with my discourse about the Quaker,
made a kind of a speech to me upon the subject of gratitude, told me it
was one of the brightest parts of a gentlewoman, that it was so twisted
with honesty, nay, and even with religion too, that he questioned
whether either of them could be found where gratitude was not to be
found; that in this act there was not only gratitude, but charity; and
that to make the charity still more Christian-like, the object too had
real merit to attract it; he therefore agreed to the thing with all his
heart, only would have had me let him pay it out of his effects.

I told him, as for that, I did not design, whatever I had said formerly,
that we should have two pockets; and that though I had talked to him of
being a free woman, and an independent, and the like, and he had offered
and promised that I should keep all my own estate in my own hands; yet,
that since I had taken him, I would e'en do as other honest wives
did--where I thought fit to give myself, I should give what I had too;
that if I reserved anything, it should be only in case of mortality, and
that I might give it to his children afterwards, as my own gift; and
that, in short, if he thought fit to join stocks, we would see to-morrow
morning what strength we could both make up in the world, and bringing
it all together, consider, before we resolved upon the place of
removing, how we should dispose of what we had, as well as of ourselves.
This discourse was too obliging, and he too much of a man of sense not
to receive it as it was meant. He only answered, we would do in that as
we should both agree; but the thing under our present care was to show
not gratitude only, but charity and affection too, to our kind friend
the Quaker; and the first word he spoke of was to settle a thousand
pounds upon her for her life--that is to say, sixty pounds a year--but
in such a manner as not to be in the power of any person to reach but
herself. This was a great thing, and indeed showed the generous
principles of my husband, and for that reason I mention it; but I
thought that a l