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master was very angry with the young lord, as she called her kinsman;
for, as she passed by the door, she heard him say, in a high tone, I
hope, sir, you did not forget what belongs to the character you assume;
or to that effect.

About one o'clock my master came up again, and he said, Will you come
down to dinner, Pamela, when I send for you? Whatever you command, sir,
I must do. But my lady won't desire to see me. No matter whether she
will or no. But I will not suffer, that she shall prescribe her insolent
will to my wife, and in your own house too.--I will, by my tenderness to
you, mortify her pride; and it cannot be done so well as to her face.

Dearest sir, said I, pray indulge me, and let me dine here by myself. It
will make my lady but more inveterate.--Said he, I have told her we are
married. She is out of all patience about it, and yet pretends not to
believe it. Upon that I tell her, Then she shall have it her own way,
and that I am not. And what has she to do with it either way? She has
scolded and begged, commanded and prayed, blessed me, and cursed me,
by turns, twenty times in these few hours. And I have sometimes soothed
her, sometimes raged; and at last left her, and took a turn in the
garden for an hour to compose myself, because you should not see how the
foolish woman has ruffled me; and just now I came out, seeing her coming
in.

Just as he had said so, I cried, Oh! my lady, my lady! for I heard
her voice in the chamber, saying, Brother, brother, one word with
you--stopping in sight of the closet where I was. He stepped out, and
she went up to the window that looks towards the garden, and said, Mean
fool that I am, to follow you up and down the house in this manner,
though I am shunned and avoided by you! You a brother!--You a barbarian!
Is it possible we could be born of one mother?

Why, said he, do you charge me with a conduct to you, that you bring
upon yourself?--Is it not surprising that you should take the liberty
with me, that the dear mother you have named never gave you an example
for to any of her relations?--Was it not sufficient, that I was
insolently taken to task by you in your letters, but my retirements must
be invaded? My house insulted? And, if I have one person dearer to me
than another, that that person must be singled out for an object of your
violence?

Ay, said she, that one person is the thing!--But though I came with a
resolution to be temperate, and to expostulate