e back-door, and every
place. O what reason had we for thankfulness and gratitude!

About seven o'clock my good master joined us, in his morning gown and
slippers; and looking a little heavy, I said, Sir, I fear you had not
good rest last night. That is your fault, Pamela, said he. After I went
from you, I must needs look into your papers, and could not leave them
till I had read them through; and so 'twas three o'clock before I went
to sleep. I wish, sir, said I, you had had better entertainment. The
worst part of it, said he, was what I had brought upon myself; and
you have not spared me. Sir, said I--He interrupting me, said, Well, I
forgive you. You had too much reason for it. But I find, plainly enough,
that if you had got away, you would soon have been Williams's wife: and
I can't see how it could well have been otherwise. Indeed, sir, said I,
I had no notion of it, or of being any body's. I believe so, said he;
but it must have come as a thing of course; and I see your father was
for it. Sir, said he, I little thought of the honour your goodness would
confer upon her; and I thought that would be a match above what we
could do for her, a great deal. But when I found she was not for it, I
resolved not to urge her; but leave all to her own prudence.

I see, said he, all was sincere, honest, and open; and I speak of it, if
it had been done, as a thing that could hardly well be avoided; and I
am quite satisfied. But, said he, I must observe, as I have a hundred
times, with admiration, what a prodigious memory, and easy and happy
manner of narration, this excellent girl has! And though she is full
of her pretty tricks and artifices, to escape the snares I had laid
for her, yet all is innocent, lovely, and uniformly beautiful. You are
exceedingly happy in a daughter; and I hope I shall be so in a wife--Or,
said my father, may she not have that honour! I fear it not, said he;
and I hope I shall deserve it of her.

But, Pamela, said my master, I am sorry to find in some parts of your
journal, that Mrs. Jewkes carried her orders a little too far: and I
the more take notice of it, because you have not complained to me of
her behaviour, as she might have expected for some parts of it; though a
good deal was occasioned by my strict orders.--But she had the insolence
to strike my girl, I find. Sir, said I, I was a little provoking, I
believe; but as we forgave one another, I was the less entitled to
complain of her.

Well,