And, O sir! that will help to polish
my mind, and make me worthier of your company and conversation; and, with
the explanations you will give me, of what I shall not understand, will
be a sweet employment, and improvement too.
But one thing, sir, I ought not to forget, because it is the chief: My
duty to God will, I hope, always employ some good portion of my time,
with thanks for his superlative goodness to me; and to pray for you and
myself: for you, sir, for a blessing on you, for your great goodness to
such an unworthy creature: for myself, that I may be enabled to discharge
my duty to you, and be found grateful for all the blessings I shall
receive at the hands of Providence, by means of your generosity and
condescension.
With all this, sir, said I, can you think I shall be at a loss to pass my
time? But, as I know, that every slight to me, if I come to be so happy,
will be, in some measure, a slight to you, I will beg of you, sir, not to
let me go very fine in dress; but appear only so, as that you may not be
ashamed of it after the honour I shall have of being called by your
worthy name: for well I know, sir, that nothing so much excites the envy
of my own sex, as seeing a person above them in appearance, and in dress.
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