Jewkes so generously in my favour, at my
leaving your house. For this, sir, awakened all my reverence for you;
and you saw I could not forbear, not knowing what I did, to break boldly
in upon you, and acknowledge your goodness on my knees. 'Tis true, my
dear Pamela, said he, we have sufficiently tortured one another; and the
only comfort that can result from it, will be, reflecting upon the matter
coolly and with pleasure, when all these storms are overblown, (as I hope
they now are,) and we sit together secured in each other's good opinion,
recounting the uncommon gradations by which we have ascended to the
summit of that felicity, which I hope we shall shortly arrive at.
Meantime, said the good gentleman, let me hear what my dear girl would
have said in her justification, could I have trusted myself with her, as
to her fears, and the reason of her wishing herself from me, at a time
that I had begun to shew my fondness for her, in a manner that I thought
would have been agreeable to her and virtue.
I pulled out of my pocket the gipsy letter; but I said, before I shewed
it to him, I have this letter, sir, to shew you, as what, I believe, you
will allow must have given me the greatest disturbance: but, first, as I
know not who is the writer, and it seems to be in a disguised hand, I
would beg it as a favour, that, if you guess who it is, which I cannot,
it may not turn to their prejudice, because it was written, very
probably, with no other view, than to serve me.
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