As I have once told
you, that I am the conquest more of your virtue than your beauty; so not
one alarming word or look shall my beloved Pamela hear or see, to give
her reason to suspect the truth of what I aver. You may the rather
believe me, continued he, as you may see the pain I have to behold any
thing that concerns you, even though your concern be causeless. And yet
I will indulge my dear girl's bashful weakness so far, as to own, that so
pure a mind may suffer from apprehension, on so important a change as
this; and I can therefore be only displeased with such part of your
conduct, as may make your sufferings greater than my own; when I am
resolved, through every stage of my future life, in all events, to study
to make them less.
After supper, of which, with all his sweet persuasions, I could hardly
taste, he made me drink two glasses of champaign, and, afterwards, a
glass of sack; which he kindly forced upon me, by naming your healths:
and as the time of retiring drew on, he took notice, but in a very
delicate manner, how my colour went and came, and how foolishly I
trembled. Nobody, surely, in such delightful circumstances, ever behaved
so silly!--And he said, My dearest girl, I fear you have had too much of
my company for so many hours together; and would better recollect
yourself, if you retired for half an hour to your closet.
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