Page:Remarkable life and death of Agnes Webster.pdf/8

8 brother and step-mother, but they having the house was given up, and Agnes went to  house to her brother. During which time became attached to a young gentleman  George Wylie, a companion of her brother. often declared he would marry her but for the interference of his parents. He now proposed that should accompany him to Southampton, where  marriage would take place previous to their  for India. But he was determined to effect diabolical designs: the monster made ever preparation for the voyage, but on the morning they  to sail he made his escape and set sail. My may be better felt than described: Behold me  a wanderer in the streets of Southampton,  money, or even a place to rest my head; having applied in vain to my brother for assistance,  received no answer from him. I continued to my bread by sewing to my late landlady, but  misfortunes soon began. I became acquainted a young woman—she soon led me into a house  bad fame, where I acted as servant for some time I soon became acquainted with the horrid lives, with the girls of this house. I left for London where I underwent all the miseries of that life. I then visited some of the principal towns