part8-第17章
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(husband) was dead; I then freely gave my husband an account
of all that affair; and of this cousin; as I had called him before;
being my own son by that mistaken unhappy match。 He was
perfectly easy in the account; and told me he should have
been as easy if the old man; as we called him; had been alive。
'For;' said he; 'it was no fault of yours; nor of his; it was a
mistake impossible to be prevented。' He only reproached him
with desiring me to conceal it; and to live with him as a wife;
after I knew that he was my brother; that; he said; was a vile
part。 Thus all these difficulties were made easy; and we lived
together with the greatest kindness and comfort imaginable。
We are grown old; I am come back to England; being almost
seventy years of age; husband sixty…eight; having performed
much more than the limited terms of my transportation; and
now; notwithstanding all the fatigues and all the miseries we
have both gone through; we have both gone through; we are
both of us in good heart and health。 My husband remained
there some time after me to settle our affairs; and at first I had
intended to go back to him; but at his desire I altered that
resolution; and he is come over to England also; where we
resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence
for the wicked lives we have lived。
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1683
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The bell at St。 Sepulchre's; which tolls upon execution day。
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