--Dearest madam, said she, you do me too
much honour. Let my whole life shew the joy I take in your deserved good
fortune, and in my duty to you, for the early instance I received of your
goodness in your kind letter. O Mrs. Jervis! replied I, there all thanks
are due, both from you and me: for our dear master granted me this
blessing, as I may justly call it, the very first moment I begged it of
him. Your goodness, sir, said she, I will for ever acknowledge; and I
beg pardon for the wrong step I made in applying to my Lady Davers.--He
was so good as to salute her, and said, All is over now, Mrs. Jervis; and
I shall not remember you ever disobliged me. I always respected you, and
shall now more and more value you, for the sake of that dear good
creature, whom, with joy unfeigned, I can call my wife. God bless your
honour for ever! said she; and many many happy years may ye live
together, the envy and wonder of all who know you!
But where, said my dear master, is honest Longman? and where is
Jonathan?--Come, Mrs. Jervis, said I, you shall shew me them, and all the
good folks, presently; and let me go up with you to behold the dear
apartments, which I have seen before with such different emotions to what
I shall now do.
We went up; and in every room, the chamber I took refuge in, when my
master pursued me, my lady's chamber, her dressing-room, Mrs.
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