f 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.--I did so. Now, said he, take them yourself, for the purposes I
mentioned. But, Mr. Longman, do you, before sunset, bring my dear girl
fifty pounds, which is due to her this day, by my promise; and every
three months, from this day, pay her fifty pounds; which will be two
hundred pounds per annum; and this is for her to lay out at her own
discretion, and without account, in such a way as shall derive a
blessing upon us all: for she was my mother's almoner, and shall be
mine, and her own too.--I'll go for it this instant, said Mr. Longman.

When he was done, I looked upon my dear generous master, and on Mrs.
Jervis, and he gave me a nod of assent; and I took twenty guineas,
and said, Dear Mrs. Jervis, accept of this, which is no more than my
generous master ordered me to present to Mrs. Jewkes, for a pair of
gloves, on my happy nuptials; and so you, who are much better entitled
to them by the love I bear you, must not refuse them.

Said she, Mrs. Jewkes was on the spot, madam, at the happy time. Yes,
said my master; but Pamela would have rejoiced to have had you there
instead of her. That I should, sir, replied I, or instead of any body,
except my own mother. She gratefully accepted them, and thanked us both:
But I don't know what she should thank me for; for I was not worth a
fourth