He told me the two Misses Darnford, and Lady Jones, would dine
with him on Sunday: And, with their servants and mine, said he, we shall
make a tolerable congregation. And, added he, have I not well contrived
to shew you that the chapel is really a little house of God, and has been
consecrated, before we solemnize our nuptials in it?--O, sir, replied I,
your goodness to me is inexpressible! Mr. Peters, said he, offered to
come and officiate in it; but would not stay to dine with me, because he
has company at his own house: and so I intend that divine service shall
be performed in it by one to whom I shall make some yearly allowance, as
a sort of chaplain.--You look serious, Pamela, added he: I know you think
of your friend Williams. Indeed, sir, said I, if you won't be angry, I
did. Poor man! I am sorry I have been the cause of his disobliging you.
When we came to the meadow, where the gentry have their walk sometimes,
the coach stopt, and my master alighted, and led me to the brook-side,
and it is a very pretty summer walk. He asked my father, If he chose to
walk out, or go on in the coach to the farther end? He, poor man, chose
to go on in the coach, for fear, he said, any gentry should be walking
there; and he told me, he was most of the way upon his knees in the
coach, thanking God for his gracious mercies and goodness; and begging a
blessing upon my good master and me.
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