So he rung the bell, and said, Call down Mrs. Jewkes. She came down, and
he took my hand, and put it into hers; and said, Mrs. Jewkes, I am
obliged to you for all your diligence and fidelity to me; but Pamela, I
must own, is not; because the service I employed you in was not so very
obliging to her, as I could have wished she would have thought it: and
you were not to favour her, but obey me. But yet I'll assure you, at the
very first word, she has once obliged me, by consenting to be friends
with you; and if she gives me no great cause, I shall not, perhaps, put
you on such disagreeable service again.--Now, therefore, be you once more
bed-fellows and board-fellows, as I may say, for some days longer; and
see that Pamela sends no letters nor messages out of the house, nor keeps
a correspondence unknown to me, especially with that Williams; and, as
for the rest, shew the dear girl all the respect that is due to one I
must love, if she will deserve it, as I hope she will yet; and let her be
under no unnecessary or harsh restraints. But your watchful care is not,
however, to cease: and remember that you are not to disoblige me, to
oblige her; and that I will not, cannot, yet part with her.
Mrs. Jewkes looked very sullen, and as if she would be glad still to do
me a good turn, if it lay in her power.
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