Mrs. Jewkes came in, and asked if her ladyship was ready for dinner? She
said, Yes. I would have gone out with her but my lady said, taking my
hand, she could not spare me. And, miss, said she, you may pull off your
gloves, and lay your fan by, for you shan't go; and, if you behave well,
you shall wait upon me at dinner, and then I shall have a little further
talk with you.
Mrs. Jewkes said to me, Madam, may I speak one word with you?--I can't
tell, Mrs. Jewkes, said I; for my lady holds my hand, and you see I am a
kind of prisoner.
What you have to say, Mrs. Jewkes, said she, you may speak before me.
But she went out, and seemed vexed for me; and she says, I looked like
the very scarlet.
The cloth was laid in another parlour, and for three persons, and she led
me in: Come, my little dear, said she, with a sneer, I'll hand you in;
and I would have you think it as well as if it was my brother.
What a sad case, thought I, should I be in, if I were as naughty as she
thinks me! It was bad enough as it was.
Jackey, said my lady, come, let us go to dinner. She said to her woman,
Do you, Beck, help Pamela to 'tend us; we will have no men-fellows.--
Come, my young lady, shall I help you off with your white gloves? I have
not, madam, said I, deserved this at your ladyship's hands.
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