Tell me, then, Pamela, said he, did she lift up her hand at you? Did she
strike you? But I hope not! A little slap of the hand, said I, or so.--
Insolent woman! She did not, I hope, offer to strike your face? Why,
said I, I was a little saucy once or twice; and she would have given me a
cuff on the ear, if her woman and Mrs. Jewkes had not interposed. Why
did you not come out at the door? Because, said I, her ladyship sat in
the chair against it, one while, and another while locked it; else I
offered several times to get away.
She knew I expected you here: You say, you shewed her my letter to you?
Yes, sir, said I; but I had better not; for she as then more exasperated,
and made strange comments upon it. I doubt it not, said he; but, did she
not see, by the kind epithets in it, that there was no room to doubt of
our being married? O, sir, replied I, and made the company smile, she
said, For that very reason she was sure I was not married.
That's like my sister! said he; exactly like her; and yet she lives very
happily herself: for her poor lord never contradicts her. Indeed he
dares not.
You were a great many wenches, were you not, my dear? for that's a great
word with her.--Yes, sir, said I, wenches and creatures out of number;
and worse than all that.
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