is pure, I
shall never fear what Man can do unto me.« - »I condemn my Humility,« said the
Lady, »for demeaning myself to converse with you so long. I shall take other
Measures; for I see you are a Confederate with them. But the sooner you leave
me, the better; and I shall give Orders that my Doors may no longer be open to
you, I will suffer no Parsons who run about the Country with Beauties to be
entertained here.« - »Madam,« said Adams, »I shall enter into no Person's Doors
against their Will: But I am assured, when you have enquired farther into this
matter, you will applaud, not blame my Proceeding; and so I humbly take my
leave;« which he did with many Bows, or at least many Attempts at a Bow.
 

                                  Chapter III

                  What past between the Lady and Lawyer Scout.
 
In the Afternoon the Lady sent for Mr. Scout, whom she attacked most violently
for intermeddling with her Servants, which he denied, and indeed with Truth; for
he had only asserted accidentally, and perhaps rightly, that a Year's Service
gained a Settlement; and so far he owned he might have formerly informed the
Parson, and believed it was Law. »I am resolved,« said the Lady, »to have no
discarded Servants of mine settled here; and so, if this be your Law, I shall
send to another Lawyer.« Scout said, »if she sent to a hundred Lawyers, not one
nor all of them could alter the Law. The utmost that was in the power of a
Lawyer, was to prevent the Law's taking effect; and that he himself could do for
her Ladyship as well as any other: And I believe,« says he, »Madam, your
Ladyship not being conversant in these Matters hath mistaken a Difference: For I
asserted only, that a Man who served a Year was settled. Now there is a material
Difference between being settled in Law and settled in Fact; and as I affirmed
generally he was settled, and Law is preferable to Fact, my Settlement must be
understood in Law, and not in Fact! And suppose, Madam, we admit he was settled
in Law, what use will they make of it, how doth that relate to Fact? He is not
settled in Fact; and if he be not settled in Fact, he is not an Inhabitant; and
if he is not an Inhabitant, he is not of this Parish; and then undoubtedly he