My dear master gave me an account, when we went up, of the pains he had
taken with his beloved sister, as he himself styled her; and of all the
kind things the good families had said in my behalf; and that he observed
she was not so much displeased with hearing them, as she was at first;
when she would not permit any body to speak of me as his wife: And that
my health, as his spouse, being put; when it came to her, she drank it;
but said, Come, brother, here's your Pamela to you: But I shall not know
how to stand this affair, when the Countess----, and the young ladies,
come to visit me. One of these young ladies was the person she was so
fond of promoting a match for, with her brother.--Lady Betty, I know, she
said, will rally me smartly upon it; and you know, brother, she wants
neither wit nor satire. He said, I hope, Lady Betty, whenever she
marries, will meet with a better husband than I should have made her;
for, in my conscience, I think I should hardly have made a tolerable one
to any but Pamela.
He told me that they rallied him on the stateliness of his temper; and
said, They saw he would make an exceeding good husband where he was; but
it must be owing to my meekness, more than to his complaisance; for, said
Miss Darnford, I could see well enough, when your ladyship detained her,
though he had but hinted his desire of finding her at our house, he was
so out of humour at her supposed noncompliance, that mine and my sister's
pity for her was much more engaged, than our envy.
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