And then I
had certainly been cuffed, if her woman had not interposed, and told her
I was not worthy her anger; and that I was as much to be pitied for my
credulity, as despised for my vanity.
My poor Pamela, said my master, this was too, too hard upon you! O sir,
said I, how much easier it was to me than if it had been so!--That would
have broken my heart quite!--For then I should have deserved it all, and
worse; and these reproaches, added to my own guilt, would have made me
truly wretched!
Lady Darnford, at whose right-hand I sat, kissed me with a kind of
rapture, and called me a sweet exemplar for all my sex. Mr. Peters said
very handsome things; so did Mr. Perry and Sir Simon, with tears in his
eyes, said to my master, Why, neighbour, neighbour, this is excellent, by
my troth. I believe there is something in virtue, that we had not well
considered. On my soul, there has been but one angel come down for these
thousand years, and you have got her.
Well, my dearest, said my master, pray proceed with your story until, we
have done supper, since the ladies seem pleased with it. Why, sir, said
I, her ladyship went on in the same manner; but said, one time, (and held
me by the hand,) she would give me an hundred guineas for one provoking
word; or, if I would but say I believed myself married, that she might
fell me at her foot: But, sir, you must not be angry with her ladyship.
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