ou on yours, I vow to you everlasting truth and fidelity! and may God
but bless us both with half the pleasures that seem to be before us, and
we shall have no reason to envy the felicity of the greatest princes!--O
sir, said I, how shall I support so much goodness! I am poor, indeed,
in every thing, compared to you! and how far, very far, do you, in every
generous way, leave me behind you!

He raised me, and, as I bent towards the door, led me to the stairs
foot, and, saluting me there again, left me to go up to my closet, where
I threw myself on my knees in raptures of joy, and blessed that gracious
God, who had thus changed my distress to happiness, and so abundantly
rewarded me for all the sufferings I had passed through.--And oh, how
light, how very light, do all those sufferings now appear, which then
my repining mind made so grievous to me!--Hence, in every state of life,
and in all the changes and chances of it, for the future, will I trust
in Providence, who knows what is best for us, and frequently turns the
very evils we most dread, to be the causes of our happiness, and of our
deliverance from greater.--My experiences, young as I am, as to this
great point of reliance on God, are strong, though my judgment in
general may be weak and uninformed: but you'll excuse these reflections,
because they are your beloved daughter's; and, so far as they are not
amiss, derive themselves from the benefit of yours and my late good
lady's examples and instructions.

I have written a vast deal in a little time; and shall only say, to
conclude this delightful Wednesday, That in the afternoon my good master
was so well, that he rode out on horseback, and came home about nine at
night; and then stepped up to me, and, seeing me with pen and ink
before me in my closet, said, I come only to tell you I am very well, my
Pamela: and since I have a letter or two to write, I will leave you to
proceed in yours, as I suppose that was your employment, (for I had put
by my papers at his coming up,) and so he saluted me, bid me good night,
and went down; and I finished up to this place before I went to bed.
Mrs. Jewkes told me, if it was more agreeable to me, she would be in
another room; but I said, No thank you, Mrs. Jewkes; pray let me have
your company. And she made me a fine courtesy, and thanked me.--How
times are altered!

Thursday.

This morning my master came up to me, and talked with me on various
subjects, for a good while