things as witches and
spirits? If there be, I believe, in my heart, Mrs. Jewkes has got
this bull of her side. But yet, what could I do without money, or a
friend'--O this wicked woman! to trick me so! Every thing, man, woman,
and beast, is in a plot against your poor Pamela, I think!--Then I
know not one step of the way, nor how far to any house or cottage;
and whether I could gain protection, if I got to a house: And now the
robbers are abroad too, I may run into as great danger as I want to
escape; nay, greater much, if these promising appearances hold: And sure
my master cannot be so black as that they should not!--What can I do?--I
have a good mind to try for it once more; but then I may be pursued and
taken: and it will be worse for me; and this wicked woman will beat me,
and take my shoes away, and lock me up.

But, after all, if my master should mean well, he can't be angry at
my fears, if I should escape; and nobody can blame me; and I can more
easily be induced, with you, when all my apprehensions are over,
to consider his proposal of Mr. Williams, than I could here; and he
pretends, as you have read in his letter, he will leave me to my choice:
Why then should I be afraid? I will go down again, I think! But yet my
heart misgives me, because of the difficulties before me, in escaping;
and being so poor and so friendless!--O good God! the preserver of the
innocent! direct me what to do!

Well, I have just now a sort of strange persuasion upon me, that I
ought to try to get way, and leave the issue to Providence. So, once
more--I'll see, at least, if this bull be still there.

Alack-a-day! what a fate is this! I have not the courage to go, neither
can I think to stay. But I must resolve. The gardener was in sight last
time; so made me come up again. But I'll contrive to send him out of the
way, if I can:--For if I never should have such another opportunity,
I could not forgive myself. Once more I'll venture. God direct my
footsteps, and make smooth my path and my way to safety!

Well, here I am, come back again! frightened, like a fool, out of all my
purposes! O how terrible every thing appears to me! I had got twice as
far again, as I was before, out of the back-door: and I looked and saw
the bull, as I thought, between me and the door; and another bull coming
towards me the other way: Well, thought I, here is double witchcraft, to
be sure! Here is the spirit of my master in one bull, and Mrs. Jewkes's