income of your own estate, the interest of the
L17,000 and the L1320 a year, may be constantly laid by for the increase
of your estate; and so," added I, "by joining the interest every year to
the capital you will perhaps grow as rich as you would do if you were to
trade with it all, if you were obliged to keep house out of it too."

He liked the proposal very well, and said it should be so; and this way
I, in some measure, satisfied myself that I should not bring my husband
under the blast of a just Providence, for mingling my cursed ill-gotten
wealth with his honest estate. This was occasioned by the reflections
which, at some certain intervals of time, came into my thoughts of the
justice of heaven, which I had reason to expect would some time or other
still fall upon me or my effects, for the dreadful life I had lived.

And let nobody conclude from the strange success I met with in all my
wicked doings, and the vast estate which I had raised by it, that
therefore I either was happy or easy. No, no, there was a dart struck
into the liver; there was a secret hell within, even all the while, when
our joy was at the highest; but more especially now, after it was all
over, and when, according to all appearance, I was one of the happiest
women upon earth; all this while, I say, I had such constant terror upon
my mind, as gave me every now and then very terrible shocks, and which
made me expect something very frightful upon every accident of life.

In a word, it never lightened or thundered, but I expected the next
flash would penetrate my vitals, and melt the sword (soul) in this
scabbard of flesh; it never blew a storm of wind, but I expected the
fall of some stack of chimneys, or some part of the house, would bury me
in its ruins; and so of other things.

But I shall perhaps have occasion to speak of all these things again
by-and-by; the case before us was in a manner settled; we had full four
thousand pounds per annum for our future subsistence, besides a vast sum
in jewels and plate; and besides this, I had about eight thousand pounds
reserved in money which I kept back from him, to provide for my two
daughters, of whom I have much yet to say.

With this estate, settled as you have heard, and with the best husband
in the world, I left England again; I had not only, in human prudence,
and by the nature of the thing, being now married and settled in so
glorious a manner,--I say, I had not only abandoned all the gay