CHAPTER XXI.Preliminary.—Maid Mary's seduction.—Flight.—Desertion.—
Going to the post-office.—A halfpenny signal.—Against an
arm-chair.—The privy watched.—Nearly caught.—Mary
suspected.—Dismissed.—In lodgings.—Service again.—My
cousin sir.—Letters lost.—Mary disappears.—Seven years
afterwards.—Sequel.
The daughter of a small inn-keeper at the town of B.. t. n, she was at a public hall. A young gentleman danced with her, afterwards paid attentions to her, and induced her to run off with him. "Oh! I was just as bad as him, poor fellow! When he got me into the room I felt sure what he was after, knew it was wrong, knew he would want me, and that I should let him. I wanted to let him do it, to be all to him, I did not want it done to me for myself, not that I recollect, I dare say I migh
