I took with me, to Lincolnshire, said my master, upwards of six hundred
guineas, and thought to have laid most of them out there: (Thank God,
thought I, you did not! for he offered me five hundred of them, you
know:) but I have not laid out above two hundred and fifty of them; so
two hundred I left there in my escritoire; because I shall go again for a
fortnight or so, before winter; and two hundred I have brought with me:
and I have money, I know not what, in three places here, the account of
which is in my pocket-book, in my library.
You have made some little presents, Pamela, to my servants there, on our
nuptials; and these two hundred that I have brought up, I will put into
your disposal, that, with some of them, you shall do here as you did
there.
I am ashamed, good sir, said I, to be so costly, and so worthless! Pray,
my dear, replied he, say not a word of that. Said Mr. Longman, Why,
madam, with money in stocks, and one thing or another, his honour could
buy half the gentlemen around him. He wants not money, and lays up every
year. And it would have been pity but his honour should have wedded just
as he has. Very true, Longman, said my master; and, pulling out his
purse, said, Tell out, my dear, two hundred guineas, and give me the
rest.
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