I am glad Mrs. Jervis stays with your honour;
and I know I have not deserved to stay: and, more than that, I don't
desire to stay.
Ads-bobbers! said Mr. Longman, and ran to me; don't say so, don't say so,
dear Mrs. Pamela! We all love you dearly: and pray down of your knees,
and ask his honour pardon, and we will all become pleaders in a body, and
I, and Mrs. Jervis too, at the head of it, to beg his honour's pardon,
and to continue you, at least, till his honour marries.--No, Mr. Longman,
said I, I cannot ask; nor will I stay, if I might. All I desire is, to
return to my poor father and mother: and though I love you all, I won't
stay.--O well-a-day, well-a-day! said the good old man, I did not expect
this!--When I had got matters thus far, and had made all up for Mrs.
Jervis, I was in hopes to have got a double holiday of joy for all the
family, in your pardon too. Well, said my master, this is a little
specimen of what I told you, Longman. You see there's a spirit you did
not expect.
Mrs. Jervis told me after, that she could stay no longer, to hear me so
hardly used; and must have spoken, had she staid, what would never have
been forgiven her; so she went out. I looked after her to go too; but my
master said, Come, Pamela, give another specimen, I desire you, to
Longman I am sure you must, if you will but speak.
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