per annum besides, that they may
keep up the stock, and be kind to any other of their relations, without
being beholden to you or me for small matters; and for greater, where
needful, you shall always have it in your power to accommodate them; for
I shall never question your prudence. And we will, so long as God spares
our lives, go down, once a year, to see them; and they shall come up, as
often as they please, it cannot be too often, to see us: for I mean not
this, my dear, to send them from us.--Before I proceed, does my Pamela
like this?
O, sir, said I, the English tongue affords not words, or, at least, I
have them not, to express sufficiently my gratitude! Teach me, dear sir,
continued I, and pressed his dear hand to my lips, teach me some other
language, if there be any, that abounds with more grateful terms; that I
may not thus be choked with meanings, for which I can find no utterance.
My charmer! says he, your language is all wonderful, as your sentiments;
and you most abound, when you seem most to want!--All that I wish, is to
find my proposals agreeable to you; and if my first are not, my second
shall be, if I can but know what you wish.
Did I say too much, my dearest parents, when I said, He was, if possible,
kinder and kinder?--O the blessed man! how my heart is overwhelmed with
his goodness!
Well, said he, my dearest, let me desire you to mention this to them, to
see if they approve it.
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