--But, O! what can such a poor creature as I do,
and do my duty?--Said he, I would have you stay a week or fortnight only,
and behave yourself with kindness to me; I stoop to beg it of you, and
you shall see all shall turn out beyond your expectation. I see, said
he, you are going to answer otherwise than I would have you; and I begin
to be vexed I should thus meanly sue; and so I will say, that your
behaviour before honest Longman, when I used you as I did, and you could
so well have vindicated yourself, has quite charmed me. And though I am
not pleased with all you said yesterday, while I was in the closet, yet
you have moved me more to admire you than before; and I am awakened to
see more worthiness in you, than ever I saw in any lady in the world.
All the servants, from the highest to the lowest, doat upon you, instead
of envying you; and look upon you in so superior a light, as speaks what
you ought to be. I have seen more of your letters than you imagine,
(This surprised me!) and am quite overcome with your charming manner of
writing, so free, so easy, and many of your sentiments so much above your
years, and your sex; and all put together, makes me, as I tell you, love
you to extravagance. Now, Pamela, when I have stooped to acknowledge all
this, oblige me only to stay another week or fortnight, to give me time
to bring about some certain affairs, and you shall see how much you may
find your account in it.
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