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not leave the house, for he had ends unknown to me, to keep me in it. So in a state of misery in my mind I staid there some time: sometimes jealous it was a wrong spirit that ordered me to stay there. After that he took a methodist parson into his house, who declared himself a lover to the wife in my presence, and despised her husband, and wanted to set all the children against him. This wounded me to the heart; and he himself expressed a jealousy. I thought to get the man out of the house privately, by Mr. Wesley's preachers; so that I went to put Mr. Wills out of the thoughts of his jealousy: but he threw himself in a violent passion, and upbraided me with hypocrisy. He said I was as bad as her to vindicate her: I had upbraided him with crimes he was never guilty of, in his love to me, and was going to leave the house for mentioning it; but now I upheld her in crimes she was guilty of; for he knew his wife too well, and Saunders too. His words cut me to the heart; for I knew I was concealing a much blacker crime than I had reproved in him, but thought I was the wrong person to tell him of it, as it might inflame his mind to renew his former words to me; so I left the house, and went to Musberry A village in East Devon. with my Brother. But when Mr. Westley's preachers told me that Saunders was turned out of their meetings, and Wills had taken him into his house, after I had tried by every private means to get him out of the house, by writing to his wife and daughter what infamous characters they had got on Saunders's account; and Mrs. Wills did not regard her character, and persuaded her children the same, I then wrote a letter to him, that he had a serpent in his bosom An idiom referring to a person who is treacherous or dangerous despite being welcomed into a home., by keeping of Saunders there. He then threw all his malice upon me; and said his wife was a virtuous prudent woman; and I was a wicked woman to make disturbance