‘shamming a Sleep,’ acting ‘as if in my Sleep,’ ‘and then pretend to awake,’ before finally ‘I counterfeit a Swoon.’
“O what a Difficulty it is to keep one's Countenance, when a violent Laugh desires to burst forth.”
‘pretended’ to be asleep as her ’master came pit a pat into the room.’ ‘forced to awake’
‘He was as rude as possible to me; but I remembered, Mamma, the instructions you gave me to avoid being ravished, and followed them’