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Updated: May 21, 2025
"My maid that I had has left me to be married," she said; "'twould be waste to hire another while you sit idle." I was in too evil a plight to be particular, so that I went with her willingly. And this I must confess, that the tasks she set me were irksome enough, but yet I was happier with her than I had been with my cousin Alstree, for I had the less time for evil and regretful thoughts.
I arrived at an ill time, for there was sickness in the house of my cousin Alstree. However, she made me welcome as well as might be, and wrote to my father suddenly of my whereabouts. My father being sore displeased at the step I had taken, sent me word by the next messenger that came that way that I might even stay where I had put myself.
My cousin Alstree was stricken with the small-pox, and in five days she and her baby were both dead. The house seemed no longer a fit place for me, and her husband was as one distracted; yet I had nowhere else to go to. It was then that a woman whom I had seen before and liked little came to my assistance. Her name was Elizabeth Gaunt. She was an Anabaptist and, as I thought, fanatical.
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