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 of the house standing at it talking with some of her acquaintance, so that I came in without knocking; and as I passed by, she told me Mr. H was above. I stept up stairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c. and then to wait upon him in the dining-room, into which my bed-chamber had a door, as is common enough. Whilst I was untying my hat-strings, I fancy'd I heard my maid Hannah's voice and a sort of tussle, which raising my curiosity, I stole softly to the door, where a knot in the wood had been slipt out, and afforded a very commanding peep-hole to the scene then in agitation, the actors of which had been too earnestly employ'd, to hear my opening my own door, from the landing place of the stairs, into my bed-chamber.

The first sight that struck me was Mr. H pulling and hauling this coarse country-strammel towards a couch that stood in a corner of the dining-room; to which the girl made only a sort of aukward hoidening [sic] resistance, crying