I return you an anser, as you wish me to doe. Master is acquented with
no sitch man. I am shure no sitch ever came to our house. And master
sturs very little out. He has no harte to stur out. For why? Your
obstinacy makes um not care to see one another. Master’s birth-day
never was kept soe before: for not a sole heere: and nothing but
sikeing and sorrowin from master to think how it yused to bee.
I axed master, if soe bee he knowed sitch a man as one Captain
Tomlinson? but said not whirfor I axed. He sed, No, not he.
Shure this is no trix nor forgery bruing against master by one
Tomlinson—Won knows not what company you may have been forsed to keep,
sen you went away, you knoe, Maddam; but Lundon is a pestilent plase;
and that ’Squire Luvless is a devil (for all he is sitch a like
gentleman to look to) as I hev herd every boddy say; and think as how
you have found by thiss.
I truste, Maddam, you wulde not let master cum to harme, if you knoed
it, by any body who may pretend to be acquented with him: but for fere,
I querid with myself if I shulde not tell him. But I was willin to show
you, that I wulde plessure you in advarsity, if advarsity be your lott,
as well as prosperity; for I am none of those that woulde doe
otherwiss. Soe no more from
Your humble sarvent, to wish you well, SARAH HODGES.