Jenny offered to make Proteſtations of her Innocence; but the Tempeſt was too high for her to be heard. She then betook herſelf to the Buſineſs of Packing, for which a ſmall Quantity of brown Paper ſufficed; and, having received her ſmall Pittance of Wages, ſhe returned home.
The Schoolmaſter and his Conſort paſs’d their Time unpleaſantly enough that Evening; but ſomething or other happened before the next Morning, which a little abated the Fury of Mrs. Partridge; and ſhe at length admitted her Huſband to make his Excuſes. To which ſhe gave the readier Belief, as he had, inſtead of deſiring her to recall Jenny, profeſſed a Satisfaction in her being diſmiſſed, ſaying, She was grown of little Uſe as a Servant, ſpending all her Time in reading, and was become, moreover, very pert and obſtinate: For indeed ſhe and her Maſter had lately had frequent Diſputes in Literature; in which, as hath been ſaid, ſhe was become greatly his Superior, This, however, he would by no means allow; and, as he called her perſiſting in the Right, Obſtinacy, he began to hate her with no ſmall Inveteracy.
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