Colbrand. This seemed odd, and
put me all in a trembling. So I shut the door; and never, sure, was the
like known! found the following agreeable contents:--
'In vain, my Pamela, do I find it to struggle against my affection for
you. I must needs, after you were gone, venture to entertain myself with
your Journal, when I found Mrs. Jewkes's bad usage of you, after your
dreadful temptations and hurts; and particularly your generous concern
for me, on hearing how narrowly I escaped drowning; (though my death
would have been your freedom, and I had made it your interest to wish
it); and your most agreeable confession in another place, that,
notwithstanding all my hard usage of you, you could not hate me; and that
expressed in so sweet, so soft, and so innocent a manner, that I flatter
myself you may be brought to love me: (together with the other parts of
your admirable Journal:) I began to repent my parting with you; but, God
is my witness! for no unlawful end, as you would call it; but the very
contrary: and the rather, as all this was improved in your favour, by
your behaviour at leaving my house: For, oh! that melodious voice praying
for me at your departure, and thanking me for my rebuke to Mrs. Jewkes,
still hangs upon my ears, and delights my memory.
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