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This letter rather increaſed than abated her rage, and ſhe reſolved to go immediately and upbraid her falſe friend; but while ſhe was taking this reſolution, ſhe was informed that Mr. Rogers and his bride were departed from Briſtol by a meſſenger, who brought her a ſecond ſhort note, and a bill for ſome money from Mrs. Rogers.
As ſoon as the firſt violence of her paſſion ſubſided, ſhe began to conſult what courſe to take, when the ſtrangeſt thought imaginable ſuggeſted itſelf to her fancy. This was to dreſs herſelf in mens cloaths, to embarque for Irelend, and commence Methodiſt teacher.
Nothing remarkable happened to her during the reſt of her ſtay at Briſtol, which adverſe winds occaſioned to be a whole week, after ſhe had provided herſelf with her dreſs; but at laſt having procured a paſſage, and the wind becoming favourable, ſhe ſet ſail for Dublin.
As ſhe was a very pretty woman, ſhe now appeared a moſt beautiful youth. A circumſtance which had its conſequences aboard the ſhip, and had like to have diſcovered her, in the very beginning of her adventures.
There happened to be in the ſame veſſel with this adventurer, a Methodiſt, who was bound to the ſame place, on the ſame deſign with herſelf.
Theſe two being alone in the cabin together, and both at their devotions, the man in the extaſy of his enthuſiaſm, thruſt one of his hands into the other’s boſom. Upon which, in her ſurprize, ſhe gave ſo effeminate a ſquawl, that it reached the Captain’s ears, as he was ſmoaking his pipe upon deck. Hey day, ſays he, what have we a woman in the ſhip! and immediately deſcended into the cabbin, where he found the two Methodiſts on their knees.
