This Morning, _Rose_ exclaimed, "Dear _Roger_! onlie think! _Moll_ has
begun to learn _Latin_ since she returned to _Forest Hill_, thinking to
surprise Mr. _Milton_ when they meet." "She will not onlie surprise
but _please_ him," returned dear _Roger_, taking my Hand very kindlie;
"I can onlie say, I hope they will meet long before she can read his
_Poemata_, unless she learnes much faster than most People." I
replyed, I learned very slowly, and wearied _Robin's_ Patience; on
which _Rose_, kissing me, cried, "You will never wearie mine; soe, if
you please, deare _Moll_, we will goe to our Lessons here everie
Morning; and it may be that I shall get you through the Grammar faster
than _Robin_ can. If we come to anie Difficultie we shall refer it to
_Roger_."
Now, Mr. _Agnew's_ Looks exprest such Pleasure with both, that it were
difficult to tell which felt the most elated; soe calling me deare
_Moll_ (he hath hitherto Mistress _Miltoned_ me ever since I sett Foot
in his House), he sayed he would not interrupt our Studdies, though he
should be within Call, and soe left us. I had not felt soe happy since
_Father's_ Birthday; and, though _Rose_ kept me close to my Book for
two Hours, I found her a far less irksome Tutor than deare _Robin_.
Then she went away, singing, to make _Roger's_ favourite Dish, and
afterwards we took a brisk Walke, and came Home hungrie enoughe to
Dinner.
There is a daily Beauty in _Rose's_ Life, that I not onlie admire, but
am readie to envy. Oh! if _Milton_ lived but in the poorest House in
the Countrie, methinks I coulde be very happy with him.
_Bedtime_.
Chancing to make the above Remark to _Rose_, she cried, "And why not be
happy with him in _Aldersgate Street_?" I briefly replied that he must
get the House first, before it were possible to tell whether I coulde
be happy there or not. _Rose_ started, and exclaimed, "Why, where do
you suppose him to be now?" "Where but at the Taylor's in _Bride's
Churchyard_?" I replied. She claspt her Hands with a Look I shall
never forget, and exclaimed in a Sort of vehement Passion, "Oh,
_Cousin, Cousin_, how you throw your own Happinesse away! How awfulle
a Pause must have taken place in your Intercourse with the Man whom you
promised to abide by till Death, since you know not that he has long
since taken Possession of his new Home; that he strove to have it ready
for you at _Michaelmasse_!"
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