Well, said he, all the matter shall be this: We will talk of our marriage
as a thing to be done next week. I find I have spies upon me wherever I
go, and whatever I do: But now, I am on so laudable a pursuit, that I
value them not, nor those who employ them. I have already ordered my
servants to have no conference with any body for ten or twelve days to
come. And Mrs. Jewkes tells me every one names Thursday come se'nnight
for our nuptials. So I will get Mr. Peters, who wants to see my little
chapel, to assist Mr. Williams, under the notion of breakfasting with me
next Thursday morning, since you won't have it sooner; and there will
nobody else be wanting; and I will beg of Mr. Peters to keep it private,
even from his own family, for a few days. Has my girl any objection?
O, sir, answered I, you are so generous in all your ways, I can have no
objections!--But I hope Lady Davers and you will not proceed to
irreconcilable lengths; and when her ladyship comes to see you, and to
tarry with you, two or three weeks, as she used to do, I will keep close
up, so as not to disgust her with the sight of me.
Well, Pamela, said he, we will talk of that afterwards. You must do then
as I shall think fit: And I shall be able to judge what both you and I
ought to do.
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