So what occasion have I for
these things?--But all I ask is about these four guineas, and if you
think I need not return them, that is all I want to know.--To be sure, my
dear, you need not, said she; you have well earned them by that waistcoat
only. No, I think not so, in that only; but in the linen, and other
things, do you think I have? Yes, yes, said she, and more. And my
keeping allowed for, I mean, said I, and these poor clothes on my back,
besides? Remember that, Mrs. Jervis. Yes, my dear odd-one, no doubt you
have. Well then, said I, I am as happy as a princess. I am quite as
rich as I wish to be: and once more, my dear third bundle, I will hug
thee to my bosom. And I beg you'll say nothing of all this till I am
gone, that my master mayn't be so angry, but that I may go in peace; for
my heart, without other matters, will he ready to break to part with you
all.
Now, Mrs. Jervis, said I, as to one matter more: and that is my master's
last usage of me, before Mr. Longman.--Said she, Pr'ythee, dear Pamela,
step to my chamber, and fetch me a paper I left on my table. I have
something to shew you in it. I will, said I, and stepped down; but that
was only a fetch, to take the orders of my master, I found. It seems he
said, he thought two or three times to have burst out upon me; but he
could not stand it, and wished I might not know he was there.
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