we knew the girl was quite wrong in some
things, she was yet so right in some other, that it gave me a great deal
of perplexity; but that which put Amy the most to it, was that the girl
(my daughter) told her that she (meaning me, her mother) had gone away
with the jeweller, and into France too; she did not call him the
jeweller, but with the landlord of the house; who, after her mother fell
into distress, and that Amy had taken all the children from her, made
much of her, and afterwards married her.

In short, it was plain the girl had but a broken account of things, but
yet that she had received some accounts that had a reality in the bottom
of them, so that, it seems, our first measures, and the amour with the
jeweller, were not so concealed as I thought they had been; and, it
seems, came in a broken manner to my sister-in-law, who Amy carried the
children to, and she made some bustle, it seems, about it. But, as good
luck was, it was too late, and I was removed and gone, none knew
whither, or else she would have sent all the children home to me again,
to be sure.

This we picked out of the girl's discourse, that is to say, Amy did, at
several times; but it all consisted of broken fragments of stories, such
as the girl herself had heard so long ago, that she herself could make
very little of it; only that in the main, that her mother had played the
whore; had gone away with the gentleman that was landlord of the house;
that he married her; that she went into France. And, as she had learned
in my family, where she was a servant, that Mrs. Amy and her Lady Roxana
had been in France together, so she put all these things together, and
joining them with the great kindness that Amy now showed her, possessed
the creature that Amy was really her mother, nor was it possible for Amy
to conquer it for a long time.

But this, after I had searched into it, as far as by Amy's relation I
could get an account of it, did not disquiet me half so much as that the
young slut had got the name of Roxana by the end, and that she knew who
her Lady Roxana was, and the like; though this, neither, did not hang
together, for then she would not have fixed upon Amy for her mother. But
some time after, when Amy had almost persuaded her out of it, and that
the girl began to be so confounded in her discourses of it, that she
made neither head nor tail, at last the passionate creature flew out in
a kind of rage, and said to Amy, that if she was no