Wherefore, asking pardon for my boldness in having intruded
myself into her private walks, I withdrew, not without some disorder
(as I thought at least) of mind.
We stayed dinner, which was very handsome, and lacked nothing to
recommend it to me but the want of mirth and pleasant discourse,
which we could neither have with them, nor by reason of them, with
one another amongst ourselves; the weightiness that was upon their
spirits and countenances keeping down the lightness that would have
been up in us. We stayed, notwithstanding, till the rest of the
company took leave of them, and then we also, doing the same,
returned, not greatly satisfied with our journey, nor knowing what
in particular to find fault with.
Yet this good effect that visit had upon my father, who was then in
the Commission of the Peace, that it disposed him to a more
favourable opinion of and carriage towards those people when they
came in his way, as not long after one of them did. For a young
man, who lived in Buckinghamshire, came on a first-day to the church
(so called) at a town called Chinner, a mile from Crowell, having,
it seems, a pressure on his mind to say something to the minister of
that parish.
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