Excerpt from The Dean of Coleraine, Vol. 2 of 3: A Moral History, Founded on the Memoirs of an Illustrious Family in Ireland

At length, believing my filter was awake, I made' aoife enough to roufe the fervants, but they did not heed me of a fadden. I' waited above a quarter of an hour longer, and having knocked feveral times with fome impatience, at lall I was heard. The fame map, whom I called our guide, opened the, door, and having lirl't carefully locked it again, he advanced and afked if I had any commands for him.' I want nothing, faid I, but the liberty of going in to the garden. He anfwered me civilly, that I was abfolme mafier of the houfe, and that he had or ders to obey gne in every thing, except that for powerful reafons, of which I~ lhould foon be fatis ¿ed, neither my filler nor I could have the permif {ion this day to'go out of our apartments. Though I found fomething whimfical in this declaration, and' Upon the whole in the care they took of locking us up without notice, yet B could without di¿iculty' imagine, that the Count thought this precaution ne cedary for our fecurity, and that what was difagreed able in the execution of it might proceed from the rndenefs of his fervantsy I entered voluntary, faid 1, into all the views of the Count, and going into my liller's chamber, I told her in a merry air, that for certain reafons that apparently tended. To the fuccefs of our meafures, and to the tran~ quillity of our retreat, we were condemned to be [but up for the refi of the day. She had the fame thoughts that I'had of this myllerious conduct, and. We did not thereby find lefs pleafure in entertaining ourfelves upon the happy alteration that a day or two had made in our fortune. My valet was not yet arrived, but all my difquiet on that account was ou ly on the fcore of his health.

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