n the _Grief_ at
their _Parting_, and _Joy_ at the happy Return,---Something so
finely, at once, and so strongly and feelingly, _varied_, even in
the smallest and least promising, little Family Incidents! that I
need only appeal from the _Heads_, to the _Hearts_ of the Objectors
themselves, whether these are _low_ Scenes to be censur'd?

And as for the opposite Extreme they wou'd quarrel with, the
high-passion'd, and un-tam'd Lady _Davers_,---I cou'd direct 'em to
a Dozen or two of _Quality Originals_, from whom (with Exception
perhaps of her _Wit_) one wou'd swear the Author had taken her
Copy.---What a Sum might these Objectors ensure, to be paid, by the
_Husbands_ and _Sons_, of such termagant, hermaphrodite Minds, upon
their making due Proof, that they were no longer to be found, in the
Kingdom!

I know, you are too just to imagine me capable of giving any other
Opinion than my best-weigh'd and true one. But, because it is fit
you should have _Reasons_, in Support of a Judgment that can neither
deserve nor expect an implicit Reception, I will run over the
Anonymous Letter I herewith return you; and note with what Lightness
even Men of _good-natur'd_ Intention fall into _Mistakes_, by
Neglect in too hasty Perusals, which their Benevolence wou'd take
Pleasure in blushing at, when they discover their Weakness, in a
cooler Revisal.

The Writer of this Letter is for having the Style _rais'd_, after
_Pamela_'s Advance in her Fortune. But surely, This was hasty
Advice: because, as the Letters are writ to her Parents, it wou'd
have look'd like forgetting, and, in some sort, insulting, the
Lowliness of their inferior Condition, to have assum'd a new Air in
her Language, in Place of retaining a steady Humility. But, here, it
must not be pass'd unobserv'd, that in her Reports of Conversations
that follow'd her Marriage, she _does_, aptly and beautifully,
heighten her Style, and her Phrases: still returning however to her
decent Simplicity, in her Addresses to her Father and Mother.

I am against giving a Gentleman (who has ennobled himself, by
reforming his Vices, and rewarding the Worth of the _Friendless_)
the unnecessary new Toy of a _Title_. It is all strong in Nature, as
it stands in the Letters: and I don't see how Greatness, from
Titles, can add Likeness or Power, to the Passions. So complete a
Resemblance of _Truth_ stands in need of no bo