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get into one as soon as possible
that I need not fear getting one there were more places than parish-churches that she advised me to go to an intelligence office that if she heard of any thing stirring, she would find me out and let me know that in the meantime, I should take a private lodging, and acquaint her where to send to me that she wish'd me good luck, and hoped I should always have the grace to keep myself honest, and not bring a disgrace on my parentage:" with this, she took her leave of me, and left me, as it were, on my own hands, full as lightly as I had been put into hers.Left thus alone, absolutely destitute and friendless, I began then to feel most bitterly the severity of this separation, the scene of which had passed in a little room in the inn; and no sooner was her back turned, but the affliction I felt at my helpless strange circumstances, burst out into a flood of tears, which in-
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