Here your dear master has ordered you something
a-piece, in honour of me. And my master holding three fingers to me, I
gave the postilion and helpers three guineas each, and the little boy
two; and bid him let his poor mother lay it out for him, for he must not
spend it idly. Mr. Colbrand, Abraham, and Thomas, I had before presented
at t'other house.
And when they were all gone but Mrs. Jervis, I said, And now, dearest
sir, permit me, on my knees, thus to bless you, and pray for you. And
oh, may God crown you with length of days, and increase of honour; and
may your happy, happy Pamela, by her grateful heart, appear always worthy
in your dear eyes, though she cannot be so in her own, nor in those of
any others!
Mrs. Jervis, said my master, you see the excellency of this sweet
creature! And when I tell you that the charms of her person, all lovely
as she is, bind me not so strongly to her, as the graces of her mind;
congratulate me, that my happiness is built on so stable a basis. Indeed
I do, most sincerely, sir, said she: This is a happy day to me!
I stept into the library, while he was thus pouring out his kindness for
me to Mrs. Jervis; and blessed God there on my knees, for the difference
I now found to what I had once known in it.
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