The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

I told him how I had passed my time, and how loud I had called him to

come back again. He told me he heard me very plain upon Delamere

Forest, at a place about twelve miles off. I smiled. 'Nay,' says he,

'do not think I am in jest, for if ever I heard your voice in my life,

I heard you call me aloud, and sometimes I thought I saw you running

after me.' 'Why,' said I, 'what did I say?'--for I had not named the

words to him. 'You called aloud,' says he, 'and said, O Jemmy! O

Jemmy! come back, come back.' I laughed at him. 'My dear,' says he, 'do not laugh, for, depend upon

it, I heard your voice as plain as you hear mine now; if you please,

I'll go before a magistrate and make oath of it.' I then began to be

amazed and surprised, and indeed frightened, and told him what I had

really done, and how I had called after him, as above.

When we had amused ourselves a while about this, I said to him: 'Well,

you shall go away from me no more; I'll go all over the world with you

rather.' He told me it would be very difficult thing for him to leave

me, but since it must be, he hoped I would make it as easy to me as I

could; but as for him, it would be his destruction that he foresaw.

However, he told me that he considered he had left me to travel to

London alone, which was too long a journey; and that as he might as

well go that way as any way else, he was resolved to see me safe

thither, or near it; and if he did go away then without taking his

leave, I should not take it ill of him; and this he made me promise.

He told me how he had dismissed his three servants, sold their horses,

and sent the fellows away to seek their fortunes, and all in a little

time, at a town on the road, I know not where. 'And,' says he, 'it

cost me some tears all alone by myself, to think how much happier they

were than their master, for they could go to the next gentleman's house

to see for a service, whereas,' said he, 'I knew not wither to go, or

what to do with myself.' I told him I was so completely miserable in parting with him, that I

could not be worse; and that now he was come again, I would not go from

him, if he would take me with him, let him go whither he would, or do

what he would. And in the meantime I agreed that we would go together

to London; but I could not be brought to consent he should go away at

last and not take his leave of me, as he proposed to do; but told him,

jesting, that if he did, I would call him back again as loud as I did

before. Then I pulled out his watch and gave it him back, and his two

rings, and his ten guineas; but he would not take them, which made me

very much suspect that he resolved to go off upon the road and leave me.