My master bid Mrs. Jewkes not to let me know yet, that my father was
come; and went to the company, and said, I have been agreeably surprised:
Here is honest old Goodman Andrews come full of grief to see his
daughter; for he fears she is seduced; and tells me, good honest man,
that, poor as he is, he will not own her, if she be not virtuous. O,
said they all, with one voice almost, Dear sir! shall we not see the good
old man you have so praised for his plain good sense, and honest heart?
If, said he, I thought Pamela would not be too much affected with the
surprise, I would make you all witness to their first interview; for
never did daughter love a father, or a father a daughter, as they two do
one another. Miss Darnford, and all the ladies, and the gentlemen too,
begged it might be so. But was not this very cruel, my dear mother? For
well might they think I should not support myself in such an agreeable
surprise.
He said, kindly, I have but one fear, that the dear girl may be too much
affected. O, said Lady Darnford, we'll all help to keep up her spirits.
Says he, I'll go up, and prepare her; but won't tell her of it. So he
came up to me, as I have said, and amused me about Mr. Williams, to half
prepare me for some surprise; though that could not have been any thing
to this: and he left me, as I said, in that suspense, at his mystical
words, saying, He would send to me, when they were going to cards.
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