text:  As for myself I was in some sort relieved by the knowledge that the noble mansion still continued in possession of the Viscount Lessingholm; and comforting myself with the assurance that no evil could befall my daughter Waller while under his protection I did contrive to seize by the bridle one of the dragoons' horses (a stout black horse which being never claimed did do my farming work for fifteen years ) and climbing up into the saddle betook me home to inform my excellent wife of all these dreadful events