And I am glad of the method I have taken of making a Journal of all that
passes in these first stages of my happiness, because it will sink the
impression still deeper; and I shall have recourse to them for my better
regulation, as often as I shall mistrust my memory.
Let me see: What are the rules I am to observe from this awful lecture?
Why these:
1. That I must not, when he is in great wrath with any body, break in
upon him without his leave. Well, I'll remember it, I warrant. But yet
I think this rule is almost peculiar to himself.
2. That I must think his displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall
me. To be sure I shall.
3. And so that I must not wish to incur it, to save any body else. I'll
be further if I do.
4. That I must never make a compliment to any body at his expense.
5. That I must not be guilty of any acts of wilful meanness. There is a
great deal meant in this; and I'll endeavour to observe it all. To be
sure, the occasion on which he mentions this, explains it; that I must
say nothing, though in anger, that is spiteful or malicious; that is
disrespectful or undutiful, and such-like.
6. That I must bear with him, even when I find him in the wrong. This
is a little hard, as the case may be!
I wonder whether poor Miss Sally Godfrey be living or dead!
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