Pray
God I may find it otherwise! Though, I hope, whatever the wicked
gentleman may intend, that I shall be at last rid of her impertinent bold
way of talk, when she seems to think, from his letter, that he means
honourably.
I am now come to MONDAY, the 5th Day of my Bondage and Misery.
I was in hope to have an opportunity to see John, and have a little
private talk with him, before he went away; but it could not be. The
poor man's excessive sorrow made Mrs. Jewkes take it into her head, to
think he loved me; and so she brought up a message to me from him this
morning that he was going. I desired he might come up to my closet, as I
called it, and she came with him. The honest man, as I thought him, was
as full of concern as before, at taking leave and I gave him two letters,
the one for Mrs. Jervis, enclosed in another for my master: but Mrs.
Jewkes would see me seal them up, lest I should enclose any thing else.--
I was surprised, at the man's going away, to see him drop a bit of paper,
just at the head of the stairs, which I took up without being observed by
Mrs. Jewkes: but I was a thousand times more surprised, when I returned
to my closet, and opening it read as follows:
'GOOD MRS. PAMELA,
'I am grieved to tell you how much you have been deceived and betrayed,
and that by such a vile dog as I.
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