The Fortunate Mistress or A History of the Life by Defoe Daniel

Author:Defoe, Daniel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: (Privatkopie)
Published: 2010-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

My Amour with my Lord –– began now to draw to an end, and indeed, notwithstanding his Money, it had lasted so long, that I was much more sick of his Lordship than he cou'd be of me; he grew old, and fretful, and captious, and I must add, which made the Vice itself begin to grow surfeiting and nauceous to me, he grew worse and wickeder the older he grew, and that to such Degree, as is not fit to write of; and made me so weary of him, that upon one of his capricious Humours, which he often took Occasion to trouble me with, I took Occasion to be much less complaisant to him than I us'd to be; and as I knew him to be hasty, I first took care to put him into a little Passion, and then to resent it, and this brought us to Words, in which I told him, I thought he grew sick of me; and he answer'd, in a heat, that truly so he was; I answer'd that I found his Lordship was endeavouring to make me sick too; that I had met with several such Rubs from him of late; and that he did not use me as he us'd to do, and I begg'd his Lordship he would make himself easie: This I spoke with an Air of Coldness and Indifference such as I knew he cou'd not bear; but I did not downright quarrel with him, and tell him I was sick of him too, and desire him to quit me, for I knew that wou'd come of itself; besides, I had receiv'd a great-deal of handsome Usage from him, and I was loth to have the Breach be on my Side, that he might not be able to say I was ungrateful.

But he put the Occasion into my Hands, for he came no more to me for two Months; indeed, I expected a Fit of Absence, for such I had had several times before, but not for above a Fortnight or three-Weeks at most: But after I had staid a Month, which was longer than ever he kept away yet, I took a new Method with him, for I was resolv'd now it should be in my Power to continue, or not as I thought fit; at the end of a Month, therefore, I remov'd and took lodgings at Kensington Gravel-Pitts, and that Part next to the Road to Acton, and left no-body in my Lodgings but Amy and a Footman; with proper instructions how to behave, when his Lordship being come to himself, should think fit to come again, which I knew he wou'd.

About the end of two Months, he came in the Dusk of the Evening as usual; The Footman answered him, and told him his Lady was not at-home, but there was Mrs. Amy above; so he did not order her to be call'd down, but went up-Stairs into the Dining-Room, and Mrs. Amy

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