sure I could not forget my dear Mrs. Jervis; and I made it my
request, and had it granted, as soon as asked, that you might return
to the kind charge, which you executed with so much advantage to our
master's interest, and so much pleasure to all under your direction. All
the power that is put into my hands, by the most generous of men, shall
be exerted to make every thing easy and agreeable to you: And as I shall
soon have the honour of attending my beloved to Bedfordshire, it will
be a very considerable addition to my delight, and to my unspeakable
obligations to the best of men, to see my dear Mrs. Jervis, and to be
received by her with that pleasure, which I promise myself from her
affection. For I am, my dear good friend, and always will be,

'Yours, very affectionately, and gratefully,
PAMELA ----.'

He read this letter, and said, 'Tis yours, my dear, and must be good:
But don't you put your name to it? Sir, said I, your goodness has given
me a right to a very honourable one but as this is the first occasion of
the kind, except that to my dear father and mother, I think I ought to
shew it you unsigned, that I may not seem over-forward to take advantage
of the honour you have done me.

However sweetly humble and requisite, said he, this may appear to my
dear Pamela's niceness, it befits me to tell you, that I am every moment
more and more pleased with the right you have to my name: and, my dear
life, added he, I have only to wish I may be half as worthy as you are
of the happy knot so lately knit. He then took a pen himself, and
wrote, after Pamela, his most worthy sirname; and I under-wrote thus:
'O rejoice with me, my dear Mrs. Jervis, that I am enabled, by God's
graciousness, and my dear master's goodness, thus to write myself!'

These letters, and the packet to you, were sent away by Mr. Thomas early
this morning.

My dearest master is just gone to take a ride out, and intends to call
upon Lady Jones, Mr. Peters, and Sir Simon Darnford, to invite them
to chapel and dinner to-morrow; and says, he chooses to do it himself,
because the time is so short, they will, perhaps, deny a servant.

I forgot to mention, that Mr. Williams was here yesterday, to ask leave
to go to see his new living, and to provide for taking possession of it;
and seemed so pleased with my master's kindness and fondness for me, as
well as his generous deportme