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I am here obliged to vindicate the Reputation of an excellent lady, who was an innocent Sufferer upon my Account. The Treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his Wife, from the Malice of some Evil Tongues, who informed him that her Grace had taken a violent Affection for my Person; and the Court-Scandal ran for some time, that she once came privately to my lodging. This I solemnly declare to be a most infamous Falsehood, without any Grounds, farther than that her Grace was pleased to treat me with all innocent Marks of Freedom and Friendship. I own she came often to my House, but always publickly, nor ever without three more in the Coach, who were usually her Sister and young Daughter, and some particular Acquaintance; but this was common to many other Ladies of the Court. And I still appeal to my Servants round, whether they at any time saw a Coach at my Door without knowing what Persons were in it. On those Occasions, when a Servant had given me notice, my Custom was to go immediately to the Door; and, after paying my Respects, to take up the Coach and two Horses very carefully in my Hands (for if there were six Horses, the Postillion always unharnessed four) and place them on a Table, where I had fixed a moveable Rim quite round, of five Inches high, to prevent Accidents. And I have often had four Coaches and Horses at once on my Table full of Company, while I sate in my Chair, leaning my face towards them; and when I was engaged with one Sett, the Coachman would gently drive the others live pokerstarscom round my Table. I have passed many an Afternoon very agreeably in these Conversations. But I defy the Treasurer, or his two Informers, (I will name them, and let 'em make their best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any Person ever came to me incognito, except the Secretary Reldresal, who was sent by express Command of his Imperial Majesty, as I have before related. I should not have dwelt so long upon this Particular, if it had not been a Point wherein the Reputation of a great Lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the Honour to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for all the World knows he is only a Glumglum, a Title inferior by one Degree, as that of a Marquiss is to a Duke in England, although I allow he preceded me in right of his Post. These false Informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of, by an Accident not proper to mention, made Flimnap the Treasurer shew his Lady for some time an ill Countenance, and me a worse; and although he were at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all Credit with him, and found my Interest decline very fast with the Emperor himself, who was indeed too much governed by that Favourite.
CHAPTER VII.
The Author being informed of a Design to accuse him of High-Treason, makes his Escape to Blefuscu. His Reception there.
Before I proceed to give an Account of my leaving this Kingdom, it may be proper to inform the Reader of a private Intrigue which had been for two Months forming against me.
I had been hitherto all my Life a Stranger to Courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my Condition. I had indeed heard and read enough of the Dispositions of great Princes and Ministers; but never expected to have found such terrible Effects of them in so remote a Country, governed, as I thought, by very different Maxims from those in Europe.
When I was just preparing to pay my Attendance on the Emperor of Blefuscu, a considerable Person at Court (to whom I had been very serviceable at a time when he lay under the highest Displeasure of his Imperial Majesty) came to my House very privately at Night in a close Chair, and without sending his Name, desired admittance. The Chair-Men were dismissed; I put the Chair, with his Lordship in it, into my Coat-Pocket: and giving Orders to a trusty Servant to say I was indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the Door of my House, placed the Chair on the Table, according to my usual Custom, and sate down by it. After the common Salutations were over, observing his live pokerstarscom Lordship's Countenance full of Concern, and enquiring into the reason, he desired I would hear him with patience in a Matter that highly concerned my Honour and my Life. His Speech was to the following Effect, for I took Notes of it as soon as he left me.
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