This useful gentlewoman upon whose protection I now
threw myself, having her reasons of state, respecting Mr.
H . . ., for not appearing too much in the thing herself,
sent a friend of her's, on the day appointed for my removal,
to conduct me to my new lodgings at a brushmaker's in R***
street, Covent Garden, the very next door to her own house,
where she had no conveniences to lodge me herself: lodgings
that, by having been for several successions tenanted by
ladies of pleasure, the landlord of them was familiarized
to their ways; and provided the rent was duly paid, every
thing else was as easy and commodious as one could desire.
The fifty guineas promis'd me by Mr. H . . ., at his
parting with me, having been duly paid me, all my cloaths
and moveables chested up, which were at least of two
hundred pound's value, I had them convey'd into a coach,
where I soon followed them, after taking a civil leave of
the landlord and his family, with whom I had never liv'd in
a degree of familiarity enough to regret the removal; but
still, the very circumstance of its being a removal drew
tears from me. I left, too, a letter of thanks for Mr.
H . . ., from whom I concluded myself, as I really was,
irretrievably separated.
My maid I had discharged the day before, not only
because I had her of Mr. H . . ., but that I suspected her
of having some how or other been the occasion of his dis-
covering me, in revenge, perhaps, for my not having trusted
her with him.
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