Think not too much of that, said he most generously. Mr. Williams's
compliments to you have great advantage of mine: For, though equally
sincere, I have a great deal to say, and to do, to compensate the
sufferings I have made you undergo; and, at last, must sit down
dissatisfied, because those will never be balanced by all I can do for
you.
He saw my dear father quite unable to support these affecting instances
of his goodness;--and he let go my hand, and took his; and said, seeing
his tears, I wonder not, my dear Pamela's father, that your honest heart
springs thus to your eyes, to see all her trials at an end. I will not
pretend to say, that I had formerly either power or will to act thus: But
since I began to resolve on the change you see, I have reaped so much
pleasure in it, that my own interest will keep me steady: For, till
within these few days, I knew not what it was to be happy.
Poor Mr. Williams, with tears of joy in his eyes, said, How happily, sir,
have you been touched by the divine grace, before you have been hurried
into the commission of sins, that the deepest penitence could hardly have
atoned for!--God has enabled you to stop short of the evil; and you have
nothing to do, but to rejoice in the good, which now will be doubly so,
because you can receive it without the least inward reproach.
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