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 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 pounds value, I had them convey'd into a coach, where I soon follow'd 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 discovering me, in revenge perhaps for my not having trusted her in it.

We soon got to my lodgings, which, though not so handsomely furnish'd, nor so showy as those I left, were to the full as convenient, and at half price, though on the first floor. My trunks were safely landed, and stow'd in my apartments, where my neighbour, and now governante, Mrs. Cole, was ready with my