Admirable Pamela! said he; excellent girl!--Surely thy sentiments are
superior to those of all thy sex!--I might have addressed a hundred fine
ladies; but never, surely, could have had reason to admire one as I do
you.
As, my dear father and mother, I repeat these generous sayings, only
because they are the effect of my master's goodness, being far from
presuming to think I deserve one of them; so I hope you will not
attribute it to my vanity; for I do assure you, I think I ought rather to
be more humble, as I am more obliged: for it must be always a sign of a
poor condition, to receive obligations one cannot repay; as it is of a
rich mind, when it can confer them without expecting or needing a return.
It is, on one side, the state of the human creature, compared, on the
other, to the Creator; and so, with due deference, may his beneficence be
said to be Godlike, and that is the highest that can be said.
The chariot brought us home at near the hour of two; and, blessed be God,
my master is pure well, and cheerful; and that makes me hope he does not
repent him of his late generous treatment of me. He handed me out of the
chariot, and to the parlour, with the same goodness, that he shewed when
he put me into it, before several of the servants.
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