I did not
send for you so much for your opinion of my new suit, as to tell you, you
are welcome to stay, since Mrs. Jervis desires it, till she goes. I
welcome! said I; I am sure I shall rejoice when I am out of the house!
Well, said he, you are an ungrateful baggage; but I am thinking it would
be pity, with these fair soft hands, and that lovely skin, (as he called
it, and took hold of my hand,) that you should return again to hard work,
as you must if you go to your father's; and so I would advise her to take
a house in London, and let lodgings to us members of parliament, when we
come to town; and such a pretty daughter as you may pass for, will always
fill her house, and she'll get a great deal of money.
I was sadly vexed at this barbarous joke; but being ready to cry before,
the tears gushed out, and (endeavouring to get my hand from him, but in
vain) I said, I can expect no better: Your behaviour, sir, to me, has
been just of a piece with these words: Nay, I will say it, though you
were to be ever so angry.--I angry, Pamela? No, no, said he, I have
overcome all that; and as you are to go away, I look upon you now as Mrs.
Jervis's guest while you both stay, and not as my servant; and so you may
say what you will. But I'll tell you, Pamela, why you need not take this
matter in such high disdain!--You have a very pretty romantic turn for
virtue, and all that.
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