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But this would not serve : She ordered the two maids to take me each by an arm , and lead me back into the house , and up stairs ; and there have I been locked up ever since , without shoes . In vain have I pleaded , that I had no design , as indeed I had not the least ; and last night I was forced to be between her and Nan ; and I find she is resolved to make a handle of this against me , and in her own behalf . -- Indeed , what with her usage , and my own apprehensions of still worse , I am quite weary of my life . Just now she has been with me , and given me my shoes , and has laid her imperious commands upon me , to dress myself in a suit of clothes out of the portmanteau , which I have not seen lately , against three or four o'clock ; for she says , she is to have a visit from Lady Darnford 's two daughters , who come purposely to see me ; and so she gave me the key of the portmanteau . But I will not obey her ; and I told her , I would not be made a show of , nor see the ladies . She left me , saying , it would be worse for me , if I did not . But how can that be ?