Jack, Knave And Fool
“Each time I have taken up my pen, I have drawn a portrait of the man in crisis, so to speak, obsessed as he could indeed become with the solving of some puzzle and the apprehension of some malefactor. It was not always so. Indeed, through the years that I spent in the warmth of his association, Sir John was quite generally of an even and pleasant temper, a just and gentle ruler of his household.
Of the time I write, early in the year 1771, that household did consist of four: he, the master;... his mistress, Lady Fielding; the widow Katherine Durham, whom he had taken as his second wife; Annie Oakum, our most capable cook, who had then just turned sixteen years of age; and I, Jeremy Proctor, a few months younger, Sir John’s “man Friday,” or so he called me, a fellow of all work —porter and house cleaner for Lady Fielding, and for Sir John scribe, reader, runner of every sort of errand, and whenever needed, a ready pair of eyes. (It must be remembered, reader, that all of his remarkable accomplishments were made more remarkable still by the fact that he was blind.) We two younger members of the household were treated as near like the children of Sir John and Lady Fielding as ever any could be.MoreLess
Of the time I write, early in the year 1771, that household did consist of four: he, the master;... his mistress, Lady Fielding; the widow Katherine Durham, whom he had taken as his second wife; Annie Oakum, our most capable cook, who had then just turned sixteen years of age; and I, Jeremy Proctor, a few months younger, Sir John’s “man Friday,” or so he called me, a fellow of all work —porter and house cleaner for Lady Fielding, and for Sir John scribe, reader, runner of every sort of errand, and whenever needed, a ready pair of eyes. (It must be remembered, reader, that all of his remarkable accomplishments were made more remarkable still by the fact that he was blind.) We two younger members of the household were treated as near like the children of Sir John and Lady Fielding as ever any could be.MoreLess
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