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see she intimates, that some people had been with her; and who should
they be, but the officious Mrs. Jervis, and Mr. Longman, and Jonathan!
and so that has made me take the measures I did in dismissing them my
service.--I see, said he, you are going to speak on their behalfs; but
your time is not come to do that, if ever I shall permit it.
My sister, says he, I have been beforehand with; for I have renounced
her. I am sure I have been a kind brother to her; and gave her to the
value of 3000l. more than her share came to by my father's will, when I
entered upon my estate. And the woman, surely, was beside herself with
passion and insolence, when she wrote me such a letter; for well she knew
I would not bear it. But you must know, Pamela, that she is much
incensed, that I will give no ear to a proposal of hers, of a daughter of
my Lord ----, who, said he, neither in person, or mind, or acquirements,
even with all her opportunities, is to be named in a day with my Pamela.
But yet you see the plea, my girl, which I made to you before, of the
pride of condition, and the world's censure, which, I own, sticks a
little too close with me still: for a woman shines not forth to the
public as man; and the world sees not your excellencies and perfections:
If it did, I should entirely stand acquitted by the severest censures.
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