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 my emotions, and gave all my concern to reflections on what would be the consequence of this new engagement.

But Mr. H, who penetrated my uneasiness, did not long suffer me to languish under it, and acquainted me, that having taken a solid sincere affection to me, he would begin by giving me one leading mark of it, in removing me out of a house which must for many reasons be irksome and disagreeable to me, into convenient lodgings, where he would take all imaginable care of me; and desiring me not to have any explanations with my landlady, or be impatient till he returned, he dress'd and went out, having left me a purse with two and twenty guineas in it, being all he had about him, as he exprest it, to keep my pocket till farther supplies.

As soon as he was gone, I felt the usual consequence of the first launch into vice; (for my love attachment to Charles never appear'd to me in that light). I was instantly born away down the stream, without the power of making back to the Rh