In these my
enlightened friend never accompanied me, but I always observed
that he was the first to lead me to every one of them, and then
leave me in the lurch. The next day, after these my fallings off, he
never failed to reprove me gently, blaming me for my venial
transgressions; but then he had the art of reconciling all, by
reverting to my justified and infallible state, which I found to
prove a delightful healing salve for every sore.
But, of all my troubles, this was the chief. I was every day and
every hour assailed with accusations of deeds of which I was
wholly ignorant; of acts of cruelty, injustice, defamation, and
deceit; of pieces of business which I could not be made to
comprehend; with lawsuits, details, arrestments of judgment, and
a thousand interminable quibbles from the mouth of my
loquacious and conceited attorney. So miserable was my life
rendered by these continued attacks that I was often obliged to
lock myself up for days together, never seeing any person save
my man Samuel Scrape, who was a very honest blunt fellow, a
staunch Cameronian, but withal very little conversant in religious
matters.
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