And then he took both
our hands, and joined them; and my lady saluting me again, with tears on
both sides, he put his kind arms about each of our waists, and saluted us
with great affection, saying, Now, God bless you both, the two dearest
creatures I have in the world!
Well, said she, you will quite forget my fault about Miss--He stopt her
before she could speak the name, and said, For ever forget it!--And,
Pamela, I'll forgive you too, if you don't again make my displeasure so
light a thing to you, as you did just now.
Said my lady, She did not make your displeasure a light thing to her; but
the heavier it was, the higher compliment she made me, that she would
bear it all, rather than not see you and me reconciled. No matter for
that, said he: It was either an absence of thought, or a slight by
implication, at least, that my niceness could not bear from her
tenderness: For looked it not presuming, that she could stand my
displeasure, or was sure of making her terms when she pleased? Which,
fond as I am of her, I assure her, will not be always, in wilful faults,
in her power.
Nay, said my lady, I can tell you, Pamela, you have a gentleman here in
my brother; and you may expect such treatment from him, as that
character, and his known good sense and breeding, will always oblige him
to shew: But if you offend, the Lord have mercy upon you!--You see how it
is by poor me!--And yet I never knew him to forgive so soon.
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