LETTER LX
MRS. HODGES[IN ANSWER.]SAT. JULY 2.
MADDAM,
I return you an anser, as you wish me to doe. Master is acquented withno sitch man. I am shure no sitch ever came to our house. And mastersturs very little out. He has no harte to stur out. For why? Yourobstinacy makes um not care to see one another. Master's birth-day neverwas kept soe before: for not a sole heere: and nothing but sikeing andsorrowin 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 youwent 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 lookto) as I hev herd every boddy say; and think as how you have found bythiss.
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, Iquerid with myself if I shulde not tell him. But I was willin to showyou, 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.