I will make you a present, returned he, worth your acceptance, if
you will grace us with your company at church, when we make our
appearance.--Take that, said she, if I die for it, wretch that thou art!
and was going to hit him a great slap; but he held her hand. Her kinsman
said, Dear aunt, I wonder at you! Why, all these are things of course.
I begged leave to withdraw; and, as I went out, my good master said,
There's a person! There's a shape! There's a sweetness! O, Lady
Davers! were you a man, you would doat on her, as I do. Yes, said the
naughty lady, so I should, for my harlot, but not for my wife. I turned,
on this, and said, Indeed your ladyship is cruel; and well may gentlemen
take liberties, when ladies of honour say such things! And I wept, and
added, Your ladyship's inference, if your good brother was not the most
generous of men, would make me very unhappy.
No fear, wench; no fear, said she; thou'lt hold him as long as any body
can, I see that!--Poor Sally Godfrey never had half the interest in him,
I'll assure you.
Stay, my Pamela, said he, in a passion; stay, when I bid you. You have
now heard two vile charges upon me!--I love you with such a true
affection, that I ought to say something before this malicious accuser,
that you may not think your consummate virtue linked to so black a
villain.
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