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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 7 · The Samuel Richardson Library

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Speaker 1: Section seven of pamela or virtue rewarded meantime mrs jervis
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Speaker 1: and all the family were in the utmost grief for
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Speaker 1: the trick put upon the poor pamela and she and
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Speaker 1: the steward represented it to their master in as moving
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Speaker 1: terms as they durst but were forced to rest satisfied
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Speaker 1: with his general assurances of intending her no harm which
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Speaker 1: however mrs jervis little believed from the pretence he had
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Speaker 1: made in his letter of the correspondence between pamela and
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Speaker 1: the young parson which she knew to be all mere
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Speaker 1: invention though she durst not say so but the week
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Speaker 1: after they were made a little more easy by the
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Speaker 1: following letter brought by an unknown hand and left for
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Speaker 1: mrs jervis which now procured will be shown in the
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Speaker 1: sequel dear mrs jervis i have been vilely tricked and
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Speaker 1: instead of being driven by robin to my dear father's
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Speaker 1: i am carried off to where i have no liberty
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Speaker 1: to tell however i am at present not used hardly
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Speaker 1: in the main and right to beg of you to
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Speaker 1: let my dear father and mother whose hearts must be
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Speaker 1: well-nigh broken know that i am well and that i
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Speaker 1: am and by the grace of god ever will be
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Speaker 1: their honest as well as dutiful daughter and your obliged
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Speaker 1: friend pamela andrews i must neither send date nor place
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Speaker 1: but have most solemn assurances of honorable usage this is
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Speaker 1: the only time my low estate has been troublesome to
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Speaker 1: me since it has subjected me to the frights i
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Speaker 1: have undergone love to your good self and all my
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Speaker 1: dear fellow-servants adieu adieu but pray for poor pamela this
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Speaker 1: though it quieted not entirely their apprehensions was shown to
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Speaker 1: the whole family and to the gentleman himself who pretended
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Speaker 1: not to know how it came and mrs jervis sent
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Speaker 1: it away to the good old folks who at first
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Speaker 1: suspected it was forged and not their daughter's hand but
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Speaker 1: finding the contrary they were a little easier to hear
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Speaker 1: that she was alive and honest and having inquired of
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Speaker 1: all their acquaintance what could be done and no one
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Speaker 1: being able to put them in a way how to
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Speaker 1: proceed with effect on so extraordinary an occasion against so
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Speaker 1: rich and so resolute a gentleman and being afraid to
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Speaker 1: make matters worse though they saw plainly enough that she
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Speaker 1: was in no bishop's family and so mistrusted all the
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Speaker 1: rest of his story they applied themselves to prayers for
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Speaker 1: their poor daughter and for an happy issue to an
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Speaker 1: affair that almost distracted them we shall now leave the
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Speaker 1: honest old pair praying for their dear pamela and return
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Speaker 1: to the account she herself gives of all this having
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Speaker 1: written it journal wise to amuse and employ her time
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Speaker 1: in hopes some opportunity might offer to send it to
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Speaker 1: her friends and as was her constant view that she
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Speaker 1: might afterwards thankfully look back upon the dangers she had
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Speaker 1: escaped when they should be happily overblown as in time
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Speaker 1: she hoped they would be and that then she might
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Speaker 1: examine and either approve or repent of her own conduct
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Speaker 1: in them letter thirty two o my dearest father and
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Speaker 1: mother let me write and bewail my miserable hard fate
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Speaker 1: though i have no hope how what i can write
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Speaker 1: can be conveyed to your hands i have now nothing
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Speaker 1: to do but write and weep and fear and pray
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Speaker 1: yet what can i hope for when i seem to
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Speaker 1: be devoted as a victim to the will of a
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Speaker 1: wicked violator of all the laws of god and man
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Speaker 1: but gracious heaven forgive me my rashness and despondency oh
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Speaker 1: let me not sin against thee for thou best knowest
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Speaker 1: what is fittest for thy poor handmaid and as thou
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Speaker 1: sufferest not thy poor creatures to be tempted above what
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Speaker 1: they can bear i will resign myself to thy good
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Speaker 1: pleasure and still i hope desperate as my condition seems
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Speaker 1: that as these trials are not of my own seeking
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Speaker 1: nor the effects of my presumption and vanity i shall
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Speaker 1: be enabled to overcome them and in god's own good
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Speaker 1: time be delivered from them thus do i pray imperfectly
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Speaker 1: as i am forced by my distracting fears and apprehensions
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Speaker 1: and oh join with me my dear parents but alas
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Speaker 1: how can you know how can i reveal to you
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Speaker 1: the dreadful situation of your poor daughter the unhappy pamela
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Speaker 1: may be undone which god forbid and sooner deprive me
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Speaker 1: of life before you can know her hard lot oh
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Speaker 1: the unparalleled wickedness stratagems and devices of those who call
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Speaker 1: themselves gentlemen yet pervert the design of providence in giving
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Speaker 1: them ample means to do good to their own everlasting
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Speaker 1: perdition and the ruin of poor oppressed innocence but now
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Speaker 1: i will tell you what has befallen me and yet
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Speaker 1: how shall you receive it here is no honest john
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Speaker 1: to carry my letters to you and besides i am
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Speaker 1: watched in all my steps and no doubt shall be
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Speaker 1: till my hard fate may ripen his wicked projects for
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Speaker 1: my ruin i will every day however write my sad
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Speaker 1: state and some way perhaps may be opened to send
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Speaker 1: the melancholy scribble to you but alas when you know
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Speaker 1: it what will it do but aggravate your troubles for
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Speaker 1: oh what can the abject poor do against the mighty
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Speaker 1: rich when they are determined to oppress well but i
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Speaker 1: must proceed to write what i had hoped to tell
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Speaker 1: you in a few hours when i believed i should
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Speaker 1: receive your grateful blessings on my return to you from
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Speaker 1: so many hardships i will begin with my account from
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Speaker 1: the last letter i wrote you in which i enclosed
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Speaker 1: my poor stuff of verses and continue it at times
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Speaker 1: as i have opportunity though as i said i know
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Speaker 1: not how it can reach you The long-hoped-for Thursday morning
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Speaker 1: came when I was to set out. I had taken
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Speaker 1: my leave of my fellow-servants over night, and a mournful
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Speaker 1: leave it was to us all, for men as well
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Speaker 1: as women-servants wept much to part with me, and for
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Speaker 1: my part I was overwhelmed with tears and the affecting
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Speaker 1: instances of their esteem. They all would have made me
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Speaker 1: little presents as tokens of their love, but I would
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Speaker 1: not take anything from the lower servants to be sure.
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Speaker 1: but mr longman would have me accept of several yards
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Speaker 1: of holland and a silver snuff-box and a gold ring
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Speaker 1: which he desired me to keep for his sake and
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Speaker 1: he wept over me but said i am sure so
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Speaker 1: good a maiden god will bless and though you return
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Speaker 1: to your poor father again and his low estate yet
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Speaker 1: providence will find you out remember i tell you so
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Speaker 1: and one day though i mayn't live to see it
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Speaker 1: you will be rewarded i said oh dear mr longman
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Speaker 1: you make me too rich and too mody and yet
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Speaker 1: i must be a beggar before my time for i
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Speaker 1: shall want often to be scribbling little thinking it would
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Speaker 1: be my only employment so soon and i will beg
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Speaker 1: you sir to favour me with some paper and as
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Speaker 1: soon as i get home i will write you a
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Speaker 1: letter to thank you for all your kindness to me
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Speaker 1: and a letter to good mrs jervis too this was
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Speaker 1: lucky for i should have had none else but at
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Speaker 1: the pleasure of my rough-natured governess as i may call
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Speaker 1: her but now i can write to ease my mind
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Speaker 1: though i can't send it to you and write what
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Speaker 1: i please for she knows not how well i am
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Speaker 1: provided for good mr longman gave me above forty sheets
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Speaker 1: of paper and a dozen pens and a small phial
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Speaker 1: of ink which last i wrapped in paper and put
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Speaker 1: in my pocket and some wax and wafers oh dear
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Speaker 1: sir said i you have set me up how shall
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Speaker 1: i requite you he said by a kiss my fair
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Speaker 1: mistress and i gave it very willingly for he is
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Speaker 1: a good old man rachel and hannah cried sadly when
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Speaker 1: i took my leave and jane who sometimes used to
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Speaker 1: be a little crossish and cicely too wept sadly and
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Speaker 1: said they would pray for me but poor jane i
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Speaker 1: doubt will forget that for she seldom says her prayers
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Speaker 1: for herself more's the pity then arthur the gardener our
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Speaker 1: robin the coachman and lincolnshire robin too who was to
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Speaker 1: carry me were very civil and both had tears in
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Speaker 1: their eyes which i thought then very good-natured in lincolnshire
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Speaker 1: robin because he knew but little of me but since
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Speaker 1: i find he might well be concerned for he had
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Speaker 1: then his instructions it seems and knew how he was
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Speaker 1: to be a means to entrap me then our other
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Speaker 1: three footmen harry isaac and benjamin and grooms and helpers
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Speaker 1: were very much affected likewise and the poor little scullion
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Speaker 1: boy tommy was ready to run over for grief they
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Speaker 1: had got all together over night expecting to be differently
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Speaker 1: employed in the morning and they all begged to shake
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Speaker 1: hands with me and i kissed the maidens and prayed
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Speaker 1: to god to bless them all and thanked them for
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Speaker 1: all their love and kindness to me and indeed i
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Speaker 1: was forced to leave them sooner than i would because
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Speaker 1: i could not stand it indeed i could not harry
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Speaker 1: i could not have thought it for he was a
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Speaker 1: little wildish they say cried till he sobbed again john
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Speaker 1: poor honest john was not then come back from you
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Speaker 1: but as for the butler mr jonathan he could not
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Speaker 1: stay in company i thought to have told you a
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Speaker 1: deal about this but i have worse things to employ
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Speaker 1: my thoughts mrs jervis good mrs jervis cried all night
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Speaker 1: long and i comforted her all i could and she
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Speaker 1: made me promise that if my master went to london
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Speaker 1: to attend parliament or to lincolnshire i would come and
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Speaker 1: stay a week with her and she would have given
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Speaker 1: me money but i would not take it well next
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Speaker 1: morning came and i wondered i saw nothing of poor
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Speaker 1: honest john for i waited to take leave of him
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Speaker 1: and thank him for all his civilities to me and
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Speaker 1: to you but i suppose he was sent farther by
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Speaker 1: my master and so could not return and i desired
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Speaker 1: to be remembered to him and when mrs jervis told
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Speaker 1: me with a sad heart the chariot was ready with
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Speaker 1: four horses to it i was just upon sinking to
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Speaker 1: the ground though i wanted to be with you my
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Speaker 1: master was above stairs and never asked to see me
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Speaker 1: i was glad of it in the main but he
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Speaker 1: knew false heart as he is that i was not
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Speaker 1: to be out of his reach oh preserve me heaven
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Speaker 1: from his power and from his wickedness well they were
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Speaker 1: not suffered to go with me one step as i
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Speaker 1: writ to you before for he stood at the window
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Speaker 1: to see me go and in the passage to the
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Speaker 1: gate out of his sight there they stood all of
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Speaker 1: them in two rows and we could say nothing on
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Speaker 1: both sides but god bless you and god bless you
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Speaker 1: but harry carried my own bundle my third bundle as
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Speaker 1: i was used to call it to the coach with
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Speaker 1: some plum-cake and diet bread made for me over night
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Speaker 1: and some sweetmeats and six bottles of canary wine which
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Speaker 1: mrs jervis would make me take in a basket to
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Speaker 1: cheer our hearts now and then when we got together
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Speaker 1: as she said and i kissed all the maids again
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Speaker 1: and shook hands with the men again but mr jonathan
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Speaker 1: and mr longman were not there and then i tripped
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Speaker 1: down the stairs to the chariot mrs jervis crying most
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Speaker 1: sadly i looked up when i got to the chariot
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Speaker 1: and i saw my master at the window in his
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Speaker 1: gown and i courtesied three times to him very low
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Speaker 1: and prayed for him with my hands lifted up for
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Speaker 1: i could not speak indeed i was not able and
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Speaker 1: he bowed his head to me which made me then
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Speaker 1: very glad he would take such notice of me and
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Speaker 1: in i stepped and was ready to burst with grief
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Speaker 1: and could only till robin began to drive wave my
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Speaker 1: white handkerchief to them wet with my tears and at
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Speaker 1: last away he drove jehu like as they say out
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Speaker 1: of the courtyard and i too soon found i had
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Speaker 1: cause for greater and deeper grief well said i to
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Speaker 1: myself at this rate i shall soon be with my
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Speaker 1: dear father and mother until i had got as i
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Speaker 1: supposed half-way i thought of the good friends i had
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Speaker 1: left and when on stopping for a little bait to
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Speaker 1: the horses robin told me i was near half-way i
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Speaker 1: thought it was high time to wipe my eyes and
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Speaker 1: think to whom i was going as then alack for
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Speaker 1: me i thought so i began to ponder what a
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Speaker 1: meeting i should have with you how glad you'd both
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Speaker 1: be to see me come safe and innocent to you
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Speaker 1: after all my dangers and so i began to comfort
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Speaker 1: myself and to banish the other gloomy side from my
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Speaker 1: mind though too it returned now and then for i
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Speaker 1: should be ungrateful not to love them for their love
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Speaker 1: well i believe i set out about eight o'clock in
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Speaker 1: the morning and i wondered and wondered when it was
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Speaker 1: about two as i saw by a church dial in
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Speaker 1: a little village as we passed through that i was
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Speaker 1: still more and more out of my knowledge heyday thought
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Speaker 1: i to drive this strange pace and to be so
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Speaker 1: long agoing a little more than twenty miles is very
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Speaker 1: odd but to be sure thought i robin knows the
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Speaker 1: way at last he stopped and looked about him as
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Speaker 1: if he was at a loss for the road and
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Speaker 1: i said mr robert sure you are out of the
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Speaker 1: way i'm afraid i am said he but it can't
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Speaker 1: be much i'll ask the next person i see pray
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Speaker 1: do said i and he gave his horses a mouthful
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Speaker 1: of bay and i gave him some cake and two
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Speaker 1: glasses of canary wine and stopped about half an hour
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Speaker 1: in all then he drove on very fast again i
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Speaker 1: had so much to think of of the dangers i
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Speaker 1: now doubted not i had escaped of the loving friends
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Speaker 1: i had left and my best friends i was going
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Speaker 1: to and the many things i had to relate to
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Speaker 1: you that i the less thought of the way till
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Speaker 1: i was startled out of my meditations by the sun
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Speaker 1: beginning to set and still the man driving on and
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Speaker 1: his horses sweating and foaming and then i began to
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Speaker 1: be alarmed all at once and called to him and
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Speaker 1: he said he had horrid ill luck for he had
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Speaker 1: come several miles out of the way but was now
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Speaker 1: right and should get in still before it was quite
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Speaker 1: dark my heart began then to misgive me a little
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Speaker 1: and i was very much fatigued for i had no
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Speaker 1: sleep for several nights before to signify and at last
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Speaker 1: i said pray mr robert there is a town before
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Speaker 1: us what do you call it if we are too
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Speaker 1: much out of the way we had better put up
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Speaker 1: there for the night comes on apace and lord protect
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Speaker 1: me thought i i shall have new dangers mayhap to
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Speaker 1: encounter with the man who have escaped the master little
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Speaker 1: thinking of the base contrivance of the latter says he
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Speaker 1: i am just there tis but a mile on one
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Speaker 1: side of the town before us nay said i i
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Speaker 1: may be mistaken for it is a good while since
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Speaker 1: i was this way but i am sure the face
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Speaker 1: of the country here is nothing like what i remember
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Speaker 1: it he pretended to be much out of humour with
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Speaker 1: himself for mistaking the way and at last stopped at
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Speaker 1: a farm-house about two miles beyond the village i had
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Speaker 1: seen and it was then almost dark and he alighted
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Speaker 1: and said we must make shift here for i am
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Speaker 1: quite out lord thought i be good to the poor
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Speaker 1: pamela more trials still what will befall me next the
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Speaker 1: farmer's wife and maid and daughter came out and the
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Speaker 1: wife said what brings you this way at this time
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Speaker 1: of night mr robert and with a lady too then
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Speaker 1: i began to be frightened out of my wits and
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Speaker 1: laying middle and both ends together i fell a-crying and
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Speaker 1: said god give me patience i am undone for certain
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Speaker 1: pray mistress said i do you know squire b of
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Speaker 1: bedfordshire the wicked coachman would have prevented the answering me
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Speaker 1: but the simple daughter said know his worship yes surely
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Speaker 1: why he is my father's landlord well said i then
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Speaker 1: i am undone undone for ever oh wicked wretch what
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Speaker 1: have i done to you said i to the coachman
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Speaker 1: to serve me thus vile tool of a wicked master
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Speaker 1: faith said the fellow i am sorry this task was
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Speaker 1: put upon me but i could not help it but
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Speaker 1: make the best of it now here are very civil
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Speaker 1: reputable folks and you'll be safe here i'll assure you
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Speaker 1: let me get out said i and i'll walk back
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Speaker 1: to the town we came through late as it is
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Speaker 1: for i will not enter here said the farmer's wife
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Speaker 1: you'll be very well used here i'll assure you young
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Speaker 1: gentlewoman and have better conveniences than anywhere in the village
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Speaker 1: i matter not conveniences said i i am betrayed and
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Speaker 1: undone as you have a daughter of your own pity
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Speaker 1: me and let me know if your landlord as you
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Speaker 1: call him be here no i'll assure you he is
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Speaker 1: not said she and then came the farmer a good-like
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Speaker 1: sort of man grave and well-behaved and spoke to me
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Speaker 1: in such sort as made me a little pacified and
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Speaker 1: seeing no help for it i went in and the
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Speaker 1: wife immediately conducted me upstairs to the best apartment and
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Speaker 1: told me that was mine as long as i stayed
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Speaker 1: and nobody should come near me but when i called
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Speaker 1: i threw myself on the bed in the room tired
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Speaker 1: and frightened to death almost and gave way to the
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Speaker 1: most excessive fit of grief that i ever had the
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Speaker 1: daughter came up and said mr robert had given her
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Speaker 1: a letter to give me and there it was i
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Speaker 1: raised myself and saw that it was the hand and
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Speaker 1: seal of the wicked wretch my master directed to mrs
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Speaker 1: pamela andrews this was a little better than to have
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Speaker 1: him here though if he had he must have been
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Speaker 1: brought through the air for i thought i was the
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Speaker 1: good woman for i begin to see things about a
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Speaker 1: little reputable and no guile appearing in them but rather
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Speaker 1: a face of grief for my grief offered me a
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Speaker 1: glass of some cordial water which i accepted for i
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Speaker 1: was ready to sink and then i sat up in
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Speaker 1: a chair a little though very faintish and they brought
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Speaker 1: me two candles and lighted a brushwood fire and said
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Speaker 1: if i called i should be waited on instantly and
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Speaker 1: so left me to ruminate on my sad condition and
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Speaker 1: to read my letter which i was not able to
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Speaker 1: do presently after i had a little come to myself
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Speaker 1: i found it to contain these words dear pamela the
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Speaker 1: passion i have for you and your obstinacy have constrained
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Speaker 1: me to act by you in a manner that i
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Speaker 1: know will occasion you great trouble and fatigue both of
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Speaker 1: mind and body yet forgive me my dear girl for
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Speaker 1: although i have taken this step i will by all
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Speaker 1: that's good and holy use you honourably suffer not your
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Speaker 1: fears to transport you to a behaviour that will be
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Speaker 1: disreputable to us both for the place where you'll receive
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Speaker 1: this is a farm that belongs to me and the
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Speaker 1: people civil honest and obliging you will by this time
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Speaker 1: be far on your way to the place i have
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Speaker 1: allotted for your abode for a few weeks till i
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Speaker 1: have managed some affairs that will make me show myself
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Speaker 1: to you in a much different light than you may
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Speaker 1: possibly apprehend from this rash action and to convince you
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Speaker 1: that i mean no harm i do assure you that
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Speaker 1: the house you are going to shall be so much
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Speaker 1: at your command that even i myself will not approach
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Speaker 1: it without leave from you so make yourself easy be
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Speaker 1: discreet and prudent and a happier turn shall reward these
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Speaker 1: your troubles than you may at present apprehend meantime i
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Speaker 1: pity the fatigue you will have if this come to
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Speaker 1: your hand in the place i have directed and will
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Speaker 1: write to your father to satisfy him that nothing but
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Speaker 1: what is honourable shall be offered to you by your
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Speaker 1: passionate admirer so i must style myself don't think hardly
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Speaker 1: of poor robin you have so possessed all my servants
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Speaker 1: in your favour that i find they had rather serve
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Speaker 1: you than me and tis reluctantly the poor fellow undertook
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Speaker 1: this task and i was forced to submit to assure
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Speaker 1: him of my honourable intentions to you which i am
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Speaker 1: fully resolved to make good if you compel me not
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Speaker 1: to a contrary conduct i but too well apprehended that
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Speaker 1: this letter was only to pacify me for the present
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Speaker 1: but as my danger was not so immediate as i
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Speaker 1: had reason to dread and he had promised to forbear
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Speaker 1: coming to me and to write to you my dear
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Speaker 1: parents to quiet your concern i was a little more
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Speaker 1: easy than before and i made shift to eat a
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Speaker 1: little bit of boiled chicken they had got for me
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Speaker 1: and drink a glass of my sack and made each
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Speaker 1: of them do so too but after i had so
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Speaker 1: done i was again a little flustered for in came
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Speaker 1: the coachman with a look of a hangman i thought
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Speaker 1: and madammed me up strangely telling me he would beg
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Speaker 1: me to get ready to pursue my journey by five
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Speaker 1: in the morning or else he should be late in
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Speaker 1: i was quite grieved at this for i began not
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Speaker 1: to dislike my company considering how things stood and was
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Speaker 1: in hopes to get a party among them and so
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Speaker 1: to put myself into any worthy protection in the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: rather than go forward when he withdrew i began to
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Speaker 1: tamper with the farmer and his wife but alas they
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Speaker 1: had a letter delivered them at the same time i
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Speaker 1: had so securely had lucifer put it into his head
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Speaker 1: to do his work and they only shook their heads
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Speaker 1: and seemed to pity me and so i was forced
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Speaker 1: to give over that hope however the good farmer showed
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Speaker 1: me his letter which i copied as follows for it
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Speaker 1: discovers the deep arts of this wicked master and how
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Speaker 1: resolved he seems to be on my ruin by the
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Speaker 1: pains he took to deprive me of all hopes of
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Speaker 1: freeing myself from his power farmer norton i send to
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Speaker 1: your house for one night only a young gentlewoman much
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Speaker 1: against her will who has deeply embarked in a love
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Speaker 1: affair which will be her ruin as well as the
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Speaker 1: persons to whom she wants to betroth herself i have
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Speaker 1: to oblige her father ordered her to be carried to
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Speaker 1: one of my houses where she will be well used
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Speaker 1: to try if by absence and expostulation with both they
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Speaker 1: can be brought to know their own interest and i
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Speaker 1: am sure you will use her kindly for my sake
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Speaker 1: for excepting this matter which she will not own she
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Speaker 1: does not want prudence and discretion i will acknowledge any
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Speaker 1: trouble you shall be at in this matter the first
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Speaker 1: opportunity and am your friend and servant he had said
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Speaker 1: too cunningly for me that i would not own this
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Speaker 1: pretended love affair so that he had provided them not
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Speaker 1: to believe me say what i would and as they
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Speaker 1: were his tenants who all love him for he has
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Speaker 1: some amiable qualities and so he had need i saw
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Speaker 1: all my plot cut out and so was forced to
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Speaker 1: say the less i wept bitterly however for i found
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Speaker 1: he was too hard for me as well in his
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Speaker 1: contrivances as riches and so had recourse again to my
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Speaker 1: only refuge comforting myself that god never fails to take
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Speaker 1: the innocent heart into his protection and is alone able
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Speaker 1: to baffle and confound the devices of the mighty nay
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Speaker 1: the farmer was so prepossessed with the contents of his
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Speaker 1: letter that he began to praise his care and concern
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Speaker 1: for me and to advise me against entertaining addresses without
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Speaker 1: my friend's advice and consent and made me the subject
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Speaker 1: of a lesson for his daughter's improvement so i was
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Speaker 1: glad to shut up this discourse for i saw i
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Speaker 1: was not likely to be believed i sent however to
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Speaker 1: tell my driver that i was so fatigued i could
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Speaker 1: not get out so soon the next morning but he
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Speaker 1: insisted upon it and said it would make my day's
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Speaker 1: journey the lighter and i found he was a more
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Speaker 1: faithful servant to his master notwithstanding what he wrote of
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Speaker 1: his reluctance than i could have wished i saw still
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Speaker 1: more and more that all was deep dissimulation and contrivance
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Speaker 1: worse and worse indeed i might have shown them his
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Speaker 1: letter to me as a full confutation of his to
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Speaker 1: them but i saw no probability of engaging them on
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Speaker 1: my behalf and so thought it signified little as i
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Speaker 1: was to go away so soon to enter more particularly
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Speaker 1: into the matter with them and besides i saw they
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Speaker 1: were not inclinable to let me stay longer for fear
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Speaker 1: of disobliging him so i went to bed but had
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Speaker 1: very little rest and they would make their servant-maid bear
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Speaker 1: me company in the chariot five miles early in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and she was to walk back. i had contrived in
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Speaker 1: my thoughts when i was on my way in the
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Speaker 1: chariot on friday morning that when we came into some
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Speaker 1: town to bait as he must do for the horse's
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Speaker 1: sake i would at the inn apply myself if i
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Speaker 1: saw i any way could to the mistress of the
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Speaker 1: inn and tell her the case and to refuse to
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Speaker 1: go farther having nobody but this wicked coachman to contend
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Speaker 1: with well i was very full of this project and
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Speaker 1: in great hopes somehow or other to extricate myself in
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Speaker 1: this way but oh the artful wretch had provided for
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Speaker 1: even this last refuge of mine for when we came
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Speaker 1: to put up at a large town on the way
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Speaker 1: to eat a morsel for dinner and i was fully
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Speaker 1: resolved to execute my project who should be at the
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Speaker 1: inn that he put up at but the wicked mrs
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Speaker 1: jukes expecting me and her sister-in-law was the mistress of
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Speaker 1: it and she had provided a little entertainment for me
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Speaker 1: and this i found when i desired as soon as
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Speaker 1: i came in to speak with the mistress of the
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Speaker 1: house she came to me and i said i am
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Speaker 1: a poor unhappy young body that want your advice and
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Speaker 1: assistance and you seem to be a good sort of
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Speaker 1: gentlewoman that would assist an oppressed innocent person yes madam
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Speaker 1: said she i hope you guess right and i have
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Speaker 1: the happiness to know something of the matter before you
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Speaker 1: speak pray call my sister jukes jukes jukes thought i
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Speaker 1: i have heard that name i don't like it then
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Speaker 1: the wicked creature appeared whom i had never seen but
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Speaker 1: once before and i was terrified out of my wits
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Speaker 1: no stratagem thought i not one for a poor innocent
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Speaker 1: girl but everything to turn out against me that is
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Speaker 1: hard indeed so i began to pull in my horns
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Speaker 1: as they say for i saw i was now worse
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Speaker 1: off than at the farmer's the naughty woman came up
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Speaker 1: to me with an air of confidence and kissed me
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Speaker 1: see sister said she here's a charming creature would she
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Speaker 1: not tempt the first lord in the land to run
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Speaker 1: away with her oh frightful thought i here's an avowal
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Speaker 1: of the matter at once i am now gone that's
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Speaker 1: certain and so was quite silent and confounded and seeing
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Speaker 1: no help for it for she would not part with
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Speaker 1: me out of her sight i was forced to set
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Speaker 1: out with her in the chariot for she came thither
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Speaker 1: on horseback with a man-servant who rode by us the
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Speaker 1: rest of the way leading her horse and now i
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Speaker 1: gave over all thoughts of redemption and was in a
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Speaker 1: desponding condition indeed well thought i here are strange pains
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Speaker 1: taken to ruin a poor innocent helpless and even worthless
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Speaker 1: young body this plot is laid too deep and has
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Speaker 1: been too long hatching to be baffled i fear but
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Speaker 1: then i put my trust in god who i knew
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Speaker 1: was able to do everything for me when all other
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Speaker 1: possible means should fail and in him i was resolved
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Speaker 1: to confide You may see, yet, oh, that kills me,
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Speaker 1: for I know not whether ever you can see what
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Speaker 1: I write now or no, else you will see, what
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Speaker 1: sort of woman that Mrs. Jukes is, compared with the
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Speaker 1: good Mrs. Jervis, by this. Every now and then she
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Speaker 1: would be staring in my face, in the chariot, and
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Speaker 1: squeezing my hand, and saying, Why, you are very pretty,
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Speaker 1: my silent dear. And once she offered to kiss me,
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Speaker 1: but I said, I don't like this sort of carriage, Mrs.
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Speaker 1: jukes it is not like two persons of one sex
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Speaker 1: she fell a-laughing very confidently and said that's prettily said
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Speaker 1: i vow then thou hadst rather be kissed by the
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Speaker 1: other sex i fackens i commend thee for that i
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Speaker 1: was sadly teased with her impertinence and bold way but
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Speaker 1: no wonder she was innkeeper's housekeeper before she came to
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Speaker 1: my master and those sort of creatures don't want confidence
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Speaker 1: you know and indeed she made nothing to talk boldly
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Speaker 1: on twenty occasions and said two or three times when
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Speaker 1: she saw the tears every now and then as we
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Speaker 1: rid trickle down my cheeks i was sorely hurt truly
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Speaker 1: to have the handsomest and finest young gentleman in five
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Speaker 1: counties in love with me so i find i am
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Speaker 1: got into the hands of a wicked procuress and if
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Speaker 1: i was not safe with good mrs jervis and where
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Speaker 1: everybody loved me what a dreadful prospect have i now
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Speaker 1: before me in the hands of a woman that seems
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Speaker 1: to delight in filthiness oh dear sirs what shall i
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Speaker 1: do what shall i do surely i shall never be
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Speaker 1: equal to all these things about eight at night we
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Speaker 1: entered the courtyard of this handsome large old and lonely
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Speaker 1: mansion that looks made for solitude and mischief as i
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Speaker 1: thought by its appearance with all its brown nodding horrors
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Speaker 1: of lofty elms and pines about it and here said
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Speaker 1: i to myself i fear is to be the scene
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Speaker 1: of my ruin unless god protect me who is all-sufficient
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Speaker 1: i was very sick at entering it partly from fatigue
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Speaker 1: and partly from dejection of spirits and mrs jukes got
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Speaker 1: me some mulled wine and seemed mighty officious to welcome
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Speaker 1: me thither and while she was absent ordering the wine
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Speaker 1: the wicked robin came in to me and said i
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Speaker 1: beg a thousand pardons for my part in this affair
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Speaker 1: since i see your grief and your distress and i
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Speaker 1: do assure you that i am sorry it fell to
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Speaker 1: my task mighty well mr robert said i i never
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Speaker 1: saw an execution but once and then the hangman asked
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Speaker 1: the poor creature's pardon and wiped his mouth as you
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Speaker 1: do and pleaded his duty and then calmly tucked up
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Speaker 1: the criminal but i am no criminal as you all
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Speaker 1: know and if i could have thought it my duty
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Speaker 1: to obey a wicked master in his unlawful command i
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Speaker 1: had saved you all the merit of this vile service
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Speaker 1: i am sorry said he you take it so but
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Speaker 1: everybody don't think alike well said i you have done
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Speaker 1: your part mr robert towards my ruin very faithfully and
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Speaker 1: will have cause to be sorry maybe at the long
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Speaker 1: run when you shall see the mischief that comes of
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Speaker 1: it your eyes were open and you knew i was
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Speaker 1: to be carried to my father's and that i was
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Speaker 1: barbarously tricked and betrayed and i can only once more
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Speaker 1: thank you for your part of it god forgive you
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Speaker 1: so he went away a little sad what have you
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Speaker 1: said to robin madam said mrs jukes who came in
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Speaker 1: as he went out the poor fellow's ready to cry
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Speaker 1: i need not be afraid of your following his example
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Speaker 1: mrs jukes said i i have been telling him that
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Speaker 1: he has done his part to my ruin and he
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Speaker 1: now can't help it so his repentance has done me
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Speaker 1: no good i wish it may him i'll assure you
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Speaker 1: madam said she i should be as ready to cry
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Speaker 1: as he if i should do you any harm it
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Speaker 1: is not in his power to help it now said
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Speaker 1: i but your part is to come and you may
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Speaker 1: choose whether you'll contribute to my ruin or not why
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Speaker 1: look ye madam said she i have a great notion
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Speaker 1: of doing my duty to my master and therefore you
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Speaker 1: may depend upon it if i can do that and
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Speaker 1: serve you i will but you must think if your
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Speaker 1: desire and his will come to clash once i shall
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Speaker 1: do as he bids me let it be what it
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Speaker 1: will pray mrs jukes said i don't madam me so
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Speaker 1: i am but a silly poor girl set up by
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Speaker 1: the gamble of fortune for a may game and now
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Speaker 1: am to be something and now nothing just as that
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Speaker 1: thinks fit to sport with me and let you and
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Speaker 1: me talk upon a foot together for i am a
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Speaker 1: servant inferior to you and so much the more as
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Speaker 1: i am turned out of place ay ay says she
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Speaker 1: i understand something of the matter you have so great
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Speaker 1: power over my master that you may soon be mistress
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Speaker 1: of us all and so i would oblige you if
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Speaker 1: i could and i must and will call you madam
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Speaker 1: for i am instructed to show you all respect i'll
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Speaker 1: assure you who instructed you so to do said i
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Speaker 1: who my master to be sure said she' Why,' said I,'
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Speaker 1: how can that be? You have not seen him lately.'
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Speaker 1: no that's true said she but i have been expecting
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Speaker 1: you here some time oh the deep-laid wickedness thought i
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Speaker 1: and besides i have a letter of instructions by robin
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Speaker 1: but may be i should not have said so much
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Speaker 1: if you would show them to me said i i
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Speaker 1: should be able to judge how far i could or
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Speaker 1: could not expect favor from you consistent with your duty
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Speaker 1: to your master i beg your pardon fair mistress for
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Speaker 1: that said she i am sufficiently instructed and you may
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Speaker 1: depend upon it i will observe my orders and so
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Speaker 1: far as they will let me so far will i
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Speaker 1: oblige you and that's the end of it well said
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Speaker 1: i you will not i hope do an unlawful or
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Speaker 1: wicked thing for any master in the world' Look ye,'
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Speaker 1: said she,' he is my master, and if he bids
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Speaker 1: me do anything that I can do, I think I
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Speaker 1: ought to do it, and let him who has his
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Speaker 1: power to command me look to the lawfulness of it.'' Why,'
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Speaker 1: said I, 'suppose he should bid you cut my throat,
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Speaker 1: would you do it?'' There is no danger of that,'
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Speaker 1: said she,' but to be sure I would not, for
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Speaker 1: then I should be hanged, for that would be murder.'
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Speaker 1: well said i and suppose he should resolve to ensnare
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Speaker 1: a poor young creature and ruin her would you assist
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Speaker 1: him in that for to rob a person of her
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Speaker 1: virtue is worse than cutting her throat why now says
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Speaker 1: she how strangely you talk are not the two sexes
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Speaker 1: made for one another and is it not natural for
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Speaker 1: a gentleman to love a pretty woman and suppose he
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Speaker 1: can obtain his desires is that so bad as cutting
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Speaker 1: her throat and then the wretch fell a laughing and
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Speaker 1: talked most impertinently and showed me that i had nothing
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Speaker 1: to expect from her virtue or conscience and this gave
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Speaker 1: me great mortification for i was in hopes of working
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Speaker 1: upon her by degrees so we ended our discourse there
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Speaker 1: and i bid her show me where i must lie
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Speaker 1: why said she lie where you list madam i can
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Speaker 1: tell you i must lie with you for the present'
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Speaker 1: For the present,' said I, and torture then wrung my heart.'
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Speaker 1: But it is in your instructions that you must lie
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Speaker 1: with me?'' Yes, indeed,' said she.' I am sorry for it,'
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Speaker 1: said I.' Why,' said she,' I am wholesome and cleanly too,
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Speaker 1: I'll assure you.'' Yes,' said I,' I don't doubt that,
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Speaker 1: but I love to lie by myself.' How so? said she.
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Speaker 1: Was not Mrs. Jervis your bedfellow at t'other house? Well,
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Speaker 1: said I, quite sick of her and my condition. You
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Speaker 1: must do as you're instructed, I think. I can't help myself,
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Speaker 1: and am a most miserable creature. She repeated her insufferable nonsense.
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Speaker 1: Mighty miserable, indeed, to be so well beloved by one
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Speaker 1: of the finest gentlemen in England. End of section 7