Truth! Hindi sex Upon this, she acquainted me, that she was actually come to the office herself to look out for a servant——that she believed I might do, with a little of her instructions,——that she could take my very looks for a sufficient character,——that London was a very wicked, vile place,——that she hop’d I would be tractable, and keep out of bad company,——in short, she said all to me that an old experienced practitioner in town could think of, and which was much more than was necessary to take in an artless inexperienced country-maid, who was even afraid of becoming a wanderer about the streets, and therefore gladly jump’d at the first offer of a shelter, especially from so grave and matron-like a lady, for such my flattering fancy assur’d me this now mistress of mine was: I being actually hired under the nose of the good woman that kept the office, whose shrewd smiles and shrugs
