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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 2 Authors Original Preface to Volume 2
In which the Editor reflects upon the unexpected success of the first part of Pamela and humbly introduces the continuing letters that shall illuminate her virtues in the various roles she now inhabits as wife, friend, and beneficent mistress. He further addresses the balance of truth and discretion employed in the narrative, whilst expressing gratitude for the public’s enduring favour and clarifying the imagined veil over certain particulars.
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