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'I must neither send date nor place; but have most solemn assurances of
honourable usage. This is the only time my low estate has been
troublesome to me, since it has subjected me to the frights I have
undergone. Love to your good self, and all my dear fellow-servants.
Adieu! adieu! but pray for poor PAMELA.'
This, though it quieted not entirely their apprehensions, was shewn to
the whole family, and to the gentleman himself, who pretended not to know
how it came; and Mrs. Jervis sent it away to the good old folks; who at
first suspected it was forged, and not their daughter's hand; but,
finding the contrary, they were a little easier to hear she was alive and
honest: and having inquired of all their acquaintance what could be done,
and no one being able to put them in a way how to proceed, with effect,
on so extraordinary an occasion, against so rich and so resolute a
gentleman; and being afraid to make matters worse, (though they saw
plainly enough, that she was in no bishop's family, and so mistrusted all
the rest of his story,) they applied themselves to prayers for their poor
daughter, and for an happy issue to an affair that almost distracted
them.
We shall now leave the honest old pair praying for their dear Pamela, and
return to the account she herself gives of all this; having written it
journal-wise, to amuse and employ her time, in hopes some opportunity
might offer to send it to her friends; and, as was her constant view,
that she might afterwards thankfully look back upon the dangers she had
escaped, when they should be happily overblown, as in time she hoped they
would be; and that then she might examine, and either approve or repent
of her own conduct in them.
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