ittle too much too, and particularly because I had
another thing in view for her about the plate; so I told him I thought,
if he gave her a purse with a hundred guineas as a present first, and
then made her a compliment of L40 per annum for her life, secured any
such way as she should desire, it would be very handsome.

He agreed to that; and the same day, in the evening, when we were just
going to bed, he took my Quaker by the hand, and, with a kiss, told her
that we had been very kindly treated by her from the beginning of this
affair, and his wife before, as she (meaning me) had informed him; and
that he thought himself bound to let her see that she had obliged
friends who knew how to be grateful; that for his part of the obligation
he desired she would accept of that, for an acknowledgment in part only
(putting the gold into her hand), and that his wife would talk with her
about what farther he had to say to her; and upon that, not giving her
time hardly to say "Thank ye," away he went upstairs into our
bedchamber, leaving her confused and not knowing what to say.

When he was gone she began to make very handsome and obliging
representations of her goodwill to us both, but that it was without
expectation of reward; that I had given her several valuable presents
before--and so, indeed, I had; for, besides the piece of linen which I
had given her at first, I had given her a suit of damask table-linen, of
the linen I bought for my balls, viz., three table-cloths and three
dozen of napkins; and at another time I gave her a little necklace of
gold beads, and the like; but that is by the way. But she mentioned
them, I say, and how she was obliged by me on many other occasions; that
she was not in condition to show her gratitude any other way, not being
able to make a suitable return; and that now we took from her all
opportunity, to balance my former friendship, and left her more in debt
than she was before. She spoke this in a very good kind of manner, in
her own way, but which was very agreeable indeed, and had as much
apparent sincerity, and I verily believe as real as was possible to be
expressed; but I put a stop to it, and bade her say no more, but accept
of what my spouse had given her, which was but in part, as she had heard
him say. "And put it up," says I, "and come and sit down here, and give
me leave to say something else to you on the same head, which my spouse
and I have settled between ourselves in your beh