. And she called her
another time fat-face, and womaned her most violently.

Well, said my master, I am glad, my dear, you have had such an escape.
My sister was always passionate, as Mrs. Peters knows: And my poor
mother had enough to do with us both. For we neither of us wanted
spirit: and when I was a boy, I never came home from school or college
for a few days, but though we longed to see one another before, yet ere
the first day was over, we had a quarrel; for she, being seven years
older than I, was always for domineering over me, and I could not bear
it. And I used, on her frequently quarrelling with the maids, and being
always at a word and a blow, to call her Captain Bab; for her name is
Barbara. And when my Lord Davers courted her, my poor mother has made up
quarrels between them three times in a day; and I used to tell her, she
would certainly beat her husband, marry whom she would, if he did not
beat her first, and break her spirit.

Yet has she, continued he, very good qualities. She was a dutiful
daughter, is a good wife; she is bountiful to her servants, firm in her
friendships, charitable to the poor, and, I believe, never any sister
better loved a brother, than she me: and yet she always loved to vex and
tease me; and as I would bear a resentment longer than she, she'd be one
moment the most provoking creature in the world, and the next would
do any thing to be forgiven; and I have made her, when she was the
aggressor, follow me all over the house and garden to be upon good terms
with me.

But this case piques her more, because she had found out a match for
me in the family of a person of quality, and had set her heart upon
bringing it to effect, and had even proceeded far in it, without my
knowledge, and brought me into the lady's company, unknowing of her
design. But I was then averse to matrimony upon any terms; and was angry
at her proceeding in it so far without my privity or encouragement: And
she cannot, for this reason, bear the thoughts of my being now married,
and to her mother's waiting-maid too, as she reminds my dear Pamela,
when I had declined her proposal with the daughter of a noble earl.

This is the whole case, said he; and, allowing for the pride
and violence of her spirit, and that she knows not, as I do, the
transcendent excellencies of my dear Pamela, and that all her view, in
her own conception, is mine and the family honour, she is a little to be
allowed for: Though, never fe