Saturday morning, the third of my happy nuptials.
I must still write on, till I come to be settled in the duty of the
station to which I am so generously exalted, and to let you participate
with me the transporting pleasures that rise from my new condition, and
the favours that are hourly heaped upon me by the best of husbands. When
I had got my packet for you finished, I then set about writing, as he had
kindly directed me, to Mrs. Jervis; and had no difficulty till I came to
sign my name; and so I brought it down with me, when I was called to
supper, unsigned.
My good master (for I delight, and always shall, to call him by that
name) had been writing to Mr. Longman; and he said, pleasantly, See,
here, my dearest, what I have written to your Somebody. I read as
follows:
'Mr. LONGMAN,
'I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that last Thursday I was married to
my beloved Pamela. I have had reason to be disobliged with you, and Mrs.
Jervis and Jonathan, not for your kindness to, and regard for, my dear
spouse, that now is, but for the manner, in which you appealed to my
sister Davers; which has made a very wide breach between her and me. But
as it was one of her first requests, that I would overlook what had
passed, and reinstate you in all your former charges, I think myself
obliged, without the least hesitation, to comply with it.
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