And I don't know,
added he, but the ensuing winter I may give you a little taste of the
diversions of the town for a month or so. I said, His will and pleasure
should determine mine; and I never would, as near as I could, have a
desire after those, or any other entertainments that were not in his own
choice.
He was pleased to say, I make no doubt but that I shall be very happy in
you; and hope you will be so in me: For, said he, I have no very enormous
vices to gratify; though I pretend not to the greatest purity, neither,
my girl. Sir, said I, if you can account to your own mind, I shall
always be easy in whatever you do. But our greatest happiness here, sir,
continued I, is of very short duration; and this life, at the longest, is
a poor transitory one; and I hope we shall be so happy as to be enabled
to look forward, with comfort, to another, where our pleasures will be
everlasting.
You say well, Pamela; and I shall, by degrees, be more habituated to this
way of thinking, as I more and more converse with you; but, at present,
you must not be over serious with me all at once: though I charge you
never forbear to mingle your sweet divinity in our conversation, whenever
it can be brought in a propos, and with such a cheerfulness of temper, as
shall not throw a gloomy cloud over our innocent enjoyments.
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