ll, Mrs. Jervis, Longman says you have made up your
accounts with him with your usual fidelity and exactness. I had a good
mind to make you an offer of continuing with me, if you can be a little
sorry for your hasty words, which, indeed, were not so respectful as
I have deserved at your hands. She seemed at a sad loss what to say,
because Mr. Longman was there, and she could not speak of the occasion
of those words, which was me.

Indeed, said Mr. Longman, I must needs say before your face, that since
I have known my master's family, I have never found such good management
in it, nor so much love and harmony neither. I wish the Lincolnshire
estate was as well served!--No more of that, said my master; but Mrs.
Jervis may stay, if she will: and here, Mrs. Jervis, pray accept of
this, which at the close of every year's accounts I will present you
with, besides your salary, as long as I find your care so useful and
agreeable. And he gave her five guineas.--She made him a low courtesy,
and thanking him, looked to me, as if she would have spoken to me.

He took her meaning, I believe; for he said,--Indeed I love to encourage
merit and obligingness, Longman; but I can never be equally kind to
those who don't deserve it at my hands, as to those who do; and then he
looked full on me. Longman, continued he, I said that girl might come
in with Mrs. Jervis, because they love to be always together. For Mrs.
Jervis is very good to her, and loves her as well as if she was her
daughter. But else--Mr. Longman, interrupting him, said, Good to Mrs.
Pamela! Ay, sir, and so she is, to be sure! But every body must be good
to her; for----

He was going on: but my master said, No more, no more, Mr. Longman. I
see old men are taken with pretty young girls, as well as other folks;
and fair looks hide many a fault, where a person has the art to behave
obligingly. Why, and please your honour, said Mr. Longman, every
body--and was going on, I believe, to say something more in my praise,
but he interrupted him, and said, Not a word more of this Pamela. I
can't let her stay, I'll assure you; not only for her own freedom of
speech, but her letter-writing of all the secrets of my family. Ay, said
the good old man, I am sorry for that too! But, sir,--No more, I say,
said my master; for my reputation is so well known, (mighty fine,
thought I!) that I care not what any body writes or says of me: But to
tell you the truth, (not that it need go further,)