I told him that though my cargo of tobacco was damaged, yet that it was not quite lost; that the merchant I had been consigned to had so honestly managed for me that I had not wanted, and that I hoped, with frugal management, I should make it hold out till more would come, which I expected by the next fleet; that in the meantime I had retrenched my expenses, and whereas I kept a maid last season, now I lived without; and whereas I had a chamber and a dining-room then on the first floor, as he knew, I now had but one room, two pair of stairs, and the like.
«Mais je vis, dis-je, aussi bien satisfaite aujourd'hui qu'auparavant;» ajoutant que sa société m'avait portée à vivre bien plus gaiement que je n'eusse fait autrement, de quoi je lui étais fort obligée; et ainsi, j'écartai toute proposition pour l'instant.