And that would bring down upon me an hundred saucy things, and low-born
brats, and I can't tell what!
There I stopped; for I had prattled a great deal too much so early: and
he said, clasping me to him, Why stops my dear Pamela?--Why does she not
proceed? I could dwell upon your words all the day long; and you shall
be the directress of your own pleasures, and your own time, so sweetly do
you choose to employ it: and thus shall I find some of my own bad actions
atoned for by your exemplary goodness, and God will bless me for your
sake.
O, said he, what pleasure you give me in this sweet foretaste of my
happiness! I will now defy the saucy, busy censurers of the world; and
bid them know your excellence, and my happiness, before they, with
unhallowed lips, presume to judge of my actions, and your merit!--And let
me tell you, my Pamela, that I can add my hopes of a still more pleasing
amusement, and what your bashful modesty would not permit you to hint;
and which I will no otherwise touch upon, lest it should seem, to your
nicety, to detract from the present purity of my good intentions, than to
say, I hope to have superadded to all these, such an employment, as will
give me a view of perpetuating my happy prospects, and my family at the
same time; of which I am almost the only male.
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