You do well, said he, to remind me, that I owe all this to the grace of
God. I bless Him for it; and I thank this good man for his excellent
lessons to his daughter; I thank her for following them: and I hope, from
her good example, and your friendship, Mr. Williams, in time, to be half
as good as my tutoress: and that, said he, I believe you'll own, will
make me, without disparagement to any man, the best fox-hunter in
England.--Mr. Williams was going to speak: and he said, You put on so
grave a look, Mr. Williams, that, I believe, what I have said, with you
practical good folks, is liable to exception: but I see we are become
quite grave; and we must not be too serious neither.
What a happy creature, my dear mother, is your Pamela!--O may my thankful
heart, and the good use I may be enabled to make of the blessings before
me, be a means to continue this delightful prospect to a long date, for
the sake of the dear good gentleman, who thus becomes the happy
instrument, in the hand of Providence, to bless all he smiles upon! To
be sure, I shall never enough acknowledge the value he is pleased to
express for my unworthiness, in that he has prevented my wishes, and,
unasked, sought the occasion of being reconciled to a good man, who, for
my sake, had incurred his displeasure; and whose name he could not, a few
days before, permit to pass through my lips! But see the wonderful ways
of Providence! The very things that I most dreaded his seeing or
knowing, the contents of my papers, have, as I hope, satisfied all his
scruples, and been a means to promote my happiness.
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