The Diary
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3rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home, and contrary to my expectation find my little girl Su worse than she was, which troubled me, and the more to see my wife minding her paynting and not thinking of her house business, this being the first day of her beginning the second time to paynt. This together made me froward that I was angry with my wife, and would not have Browne to think to dine at my table with me always, being desirous to have my house to myself without a stranger and a mechanic to be privy to all my concernments. Upon this my wife and I had a little disagreement, but it ended by and by, and then to send up and down for a nurse to take the girl home and would have given anything. I offered to the only one that we could get 20s. per weeke, and we to find clothes, and bedding and physic, and would have given 30s., as demanded, but desired an houre or two’s time. So I away by water to Westminster, and there sent for the girl’s mother to Westminster Hall to me; she came and undertakes to get her daughter a lodging and nurse at next door to her, though she dare not, for the parish’s sake, whose sexton her husband is, to [have] her into her own house. Thence home, calling at my bookseller’s and other trifling places, and in the evening the mother come and with a nurse she has got, who demanded and I did agree at 10s. per weeke to take her, and so she away, and my house mighty uncouth, having so few in it, and we shall want a servant or two by it, and the truth is my heart was a little sad all the afternoon and jealous of myself. But she went, and we all glad of it, and so a little to the office, and so home to supper and to bed.