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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 6 · The Samuel Richardson Library

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER XXX my dear father and mother i write again
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  Speaker 1: though may be i shall bring it to you in
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  Speaker 1: my pocket for i shall have no writing nor writing
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  Speaker 1: time i hope when i come to you this is
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  Speaker 1: wednesday morning and i shall i hope set out to
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  Speaker 1: you to-morrow morning but i have had more trials and
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  Speaker 1: more vexations but of another complexion too a little though
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  Speaker 1: all from the same quarter yesterday my master after he
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  Speaker 1: came from hunting sent for me i went with great
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  Speaker 1: terror for i expected he would storm and be in
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  Speaker 1: a fine passion with me for my freedom of speech
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  Speaker 1: before so i was resolved to begin first with submission
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  Speaker 1: to disarm his anger and i fell upon my knees
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  Speaker 1: as soon as i saw him and said good sir
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  Speaker 1: let me beseech you as you hope to be forgiven
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  Speaker 1: yourself and for the sake of my dear good lady
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  Speaker 1: your mother who recommended me to you with her last
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  Speaker 1: words to forgive me all my faults and only grant
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  Speaker 1: me this favour the last i shall ask you that
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  Speaker 1: you will let me depart your house with peace and
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  Speaker 1: quietness of mind that i may take such a leave
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  Speaker 1: of my dear fellow-servants as befits me and that my
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  Speaker 1: heart be not quite broken he took me up in
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  Speaker 1: a kinder manner than ever i had known and he
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  Speaker 1: said shut the door pamela and come to me in
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  Speaker 1: my closet i want to have a little serious talk
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  Speaker 1: with you how can i sir said i how can
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  Speaker 1: i and wrung my hands i pray sir let me
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  Speaker 1: go out of your presence i beseech you by the
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  Speaker 1: god that made me said he i'll do you no
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  Speaker 1: harm shut the parlor door and come to me in
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  Speaker 1: my library he then went into his closet which is
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  Speaker 1: his library and full of rich pictures besides a noble
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  Speaker 1: apartment though called a closet and next the private garden
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  Speaker 1: into which it has a door that opens i shut
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  Speaker 1: the parlour door as he bid me but stood at
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  Speaker 1: it irresolute place some confidence in me said he surely
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  Speaker 1: you may when i have spoken thus solemnly so i
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  Speaker 1: crept towards him with trembling feet and my heart throbbing
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  Speaker 1: through my handkerchief come in said he when i bid
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  Speaker 1: you i did so pray sir said i pity and
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  Speaker 1: spare me i will said he as i hope to
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  Speaker 1: be saved he sat down upon a rich settee and
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  Speaker 1: took hold of my hand and said don't doubt me
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  Speaker 1: pamela from this moment i will no more consider you
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  Speaker 1: as my servant and i desire you'll not use me
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  Speaker 1: with ingratitude for the kindness i am going to express
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  Speaker 1: towards you this a little emboldened me and he said
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  Speaker 1: holding both my hands between his you have too much
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  Speaker 1: wit and good sense not to discover that i in
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  Speaker 1: spite of my heart and all the pride of it
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  Speaker 1: cannot but love you yes look up to me my
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  Speaker 1: sweet-faced girl i must say i love you and have
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  Speaker 1: put on a behaviour to you that was much against
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  Speaker 1: my heart in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness
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  Speaker 1: you see i own it ingenuously and don't play your
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  Speaker 1: sex upon me for it i was unable to speak
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  Speaker 1: and he seeing me too much oppressed with confusion to
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  Speaker 1: go on in that strain said well pamela let me
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  Speaker 1: know in what situation of life is your father i
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  Speaker 1: know he is a poor man but is he as
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  Speaker 1: low and as honest as he was when my mother
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  Speaker 1: took you then i could speak a little and with
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  Speaker 1: a down look and i felt my face glow like
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  Speaker 1: fire i said yes sir as poor and as honest
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  Speaker 1: too and that is my pride says he i will
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  Speaker 1: do something for him if it be not your fault
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  Speaker 1: and make all your family happy all sir said i
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  Speaker 1: he is happier already than ever he can be if
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  Speaker 1: his daughter's innocence is to be the price of your
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  Speaker 1: favour and i beg you will not speak to me
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  Speaker 1: on the only side that can wound me i have
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  Speaker 1: no design of that sort said he oh sir said
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  Speaker 1: i tell me not so tell me not so tis
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  Speaker 1: easy said he for me to be the making of
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  Speaker 1: your father without injuring you well sir said i if
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  Speaker 1: this can be done let me know how and all
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  Speaker 1: i can do with innocence shall be the study and
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  Speaker 1: practice of my life but oh what can such a
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  Speaker 1: poor creature as i do and do my duty said
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  Speaker 1: he i would have you stay a week or fortnight
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  Speaker 1: only and behave yourself with kindness to me i stoop
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  Speaker 1: to beg it of you and you shall see all
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  Speaker 1: shall turn out beyond your expectation i see said he
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  Speaker 1: you are going to answer otherwise than i would have
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  Speaker 1: you and i begin to be vexed i should thus
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  Speaker 1: meanly sue and so i will say that your behaviour
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  Speaker 1: before honest long men when i used you as i
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  Speaker 1: did and you could so well have vindicated yourself has
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  Speaker 1: quite charmed me and though i am not pleased with
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  Speaker 1: all you said yesterday while i was in the closet
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  Speaker 1: yet you have moved me more to admire you than
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  Speaker 1: before and i am awakened to see more worthiness in
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  Speaker 1: you than ever i saw in any lady in the
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  Speaker 1: world all the servants from the highest to the lowest
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  Speaker 1: dote upon you instead of envying you and look upon
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  Speaker 1: you in so superior a light as speaks what you
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  Speaker 1: ought to be i have seen more of your letters
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  Speaker 1: than you imagine this surprised me and am quite overcome
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  Speaker 1: with your charming manner of writing so free so easy
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  Speaker 1: and many of your sentiments so much above your years
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  Speaker 1: and your sex and all put together makes me as
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  Speaker 1: i tell you love you to extravagance now pamela when
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  Speaker 1: i have stooped to acknowledge all this oblige me only
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  Speaker 1: to stay another week or fortnight to give me time
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  Speaker 1: to bring about some certain affairs and you shall see
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  Speaker 1: how much you may find your account in it i
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  Speaker 1: trembled to find my poor heart giving way oh good
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  Speaker 1: sir said i spare a poor girl that cannot look
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  Speaker 1: up to you and speak my heart is full and
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  Speaker 1: why should you wish to undo me only oblige me
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  Speaker 1: said he to stay a fortnight longer and john shall
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  Speaker 1: carry word to your father that i will see him
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  Speaker 1: in the time either here or at the swan in
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  Speaker 1: his village oh sir said i my heart will burst
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  Speaker 1: but on my bended knees i beg you to let
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  Speaker 1: me go to-morrow as i designed and don't offer to
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  Speaker 1: tempt a poor creature whose whole will would be to
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  Speaker 1: do yours if my virtue would permit i shall permit
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  Speaker 1: it said he for i intend no injury to you
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  Speaker 1: god is my witness impossible said i i cannot sir
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  Speaker 1: believe you after what has passed how many ways are
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  Speaker 1: there to undo poor creatures good god protect me this
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  Speaker 1: one time and send me but to my dear father's
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  Speaker 1: cot in safety strange dnd fate said he that when
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  Speaker 1: i speak to you so solemnly i can't be believed
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  Speaker 1: what should i believe sir said i what can i
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  Speaker 1: believe what have you said but that i am to
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  Speaker 1: stay a fortnight longer and what then is to become
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  Speaker 1: of me my pride of birth and fortune dim them
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  Speaker 1: both said he since they cannot obtain credit with you
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  Speaker 1: but must add to your suspicions will not let me
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  Speaker 1: descend all at once and i ask you but a
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  Speaker 1: fortnight's stay that after this declaration i may pacify those
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  Speaker 1: proud demands upon me how my heart throbbed and i
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  Speaker 1: began for i did not know what i did to
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  Speaker 1: say the lord's prayer none of your beads to me
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  Speaker 1: pamela said he thou art a perfect nun i think
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  Speaker 1: but i said aloud with my eyes lifted up to
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  Speaker 1: heaven lead me not into temptation but deliver me from
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  Speaker 1: evil o my good god he hugged me in his
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  Speaker 1: arms and said well my dear girl then you stay
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  Speaker 1: this fortnight and you shall see what i will do
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  Speaker 1: for you i'll leave you a moment and walk into
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  Speaker 1: the next room to give you time to think of
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  Speaker 1: it and to show you i have no design upon
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  Speaker 1: you well this i thought did not look amiss he
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  Speaker 1: went out and i was tortured with twenty different doubts
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  Speaker 1: in a minute sometimes i thought that to stay a
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  Speaker 1: week or fortnight longer in this house to obey him
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  Speaker 1: while mrs jervis was with me could do no great
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  Speaker 1: harm but then thought i how do i know what
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  Speaker 1: i may be able to do i have withstood his
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  Speaker 1: anger but may i not relent at his kindness how
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  Speaker 1: shall i stand that well i hope thought i by
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  Speaker 1: the same protecting grace in which i will always confide
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  Speaker 1: but then what has he promised why he will make
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  Speaker 1: my poor father and mother's life comfortable oh said i
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  Speaker 1: to myself that is a rich thought but let me
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  Speaker 1: not dwell on it for fear i should indulge it
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  Speaker 1: to my ruin what can he do for me poor
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  Speaker 1: girl as i am what can his greatness stoop to
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  Speaker 1: he talks thought i of his pride of heart and
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  Speaker 1: pride of condition oh these are in his head and
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  Speaker 1: in his heart too or he would not confess them
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  Speaker 1: to me at such an instant well then thought i
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  Speaker 1: this can be only to seduce me he has promised
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  Speaker 1: nothing but i am to see what he will do
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  Speaker 1: if i stay a fortnight and this fortnight thought i
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  Speaker 1: again is no such great matter and i shall see
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  Speaker 1: in a few days how he carries it but then
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  Speaker 1: when i again reflected upon this distance between him and
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  Speaker 1: me and his now open declaration of love as he
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  Speaker 1: called it and that after this he would talk with
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  Speaker 1: me on that subject more plainly than ever and i
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  Speaker 1: shall be less armed may be to withstand him and
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  Speaker 1: then i bethought myself why if he meant no dishonour
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  Speaker 1: he should not speak before mrs jervis and the odious
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  Speaker 1: frightful closet came again into my head and my narrow
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  Speaker 1: escape upon it and how easy it might be for
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  Speaker 1: him to send mrs jervis and the maids out of
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  Speaker 1: the way and so that all the mischief he designed
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  Speaker 1: me might be brought about in less than that time
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  Speaker 1: i resolved to go away and trust all to providence
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  Speaker 1: and nothing to myself and how i ought to be
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  Speaker 1: thankful for this resolution as you shall hear but just
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  Speaker 1: as i have writ to this place john sends me
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  Speaker 1: word that he is going this minute your way and
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  Speaker 1: so i will send you so far as i have
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  Speaker 1: written and hope by to-morrow night to ask your blessings
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  Speaker 1: at your own poor but happy abode and tell you
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  Speaker 1: the rest by word of mouth and so i rest
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  Speaker 1: till then and for ever your dutiful daughter letter thirty
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  Speaker 1: one dear father and mother i will continue my writing
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  Speaker 1: still because maybe i shall like to read it when
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  Speaker 1: i am with you to see what dangers i have
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  Speaker 1: been enabled to escape and though i bring it along
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  Speaker 1: with me i told you my resolution my happy resolution
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  Speaker 1: as i have reason to think it and just then
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  Speaker 1: he came in again with great kindness in his looks
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  Speaker 1: and said i make no doubt pamela you will stay
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  Speaker 1: this fortnight to oblige me i knew not how to
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  Speaker 1: frame my words so as to deny and yet not
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  Speaker 1: make him storm but said i forgive sir your poor
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  Speaker 1: distressed servant i know i cannot possibly deserve any favour
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  Speaker 1: at your hands consistent with virtue and i beg you
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  Speaker 1: will let me go to my poor father why said
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  Speaker 1: he thou art the veriest fool that i ever knew
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  Speaker 1: i tell you i will see your father i'll send
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  Speaker 1: for him hither to-morrow in my travelling chariot if you
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  Speaker 1: will and i'll let him know what i intend to
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  Speaker 1: do for him and you what sir i ask you
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  Speaker 1: can that be your honour's noble estate may easily make
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  Speaker 1: him happy and not unuseful perhaps to you in some
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  Speaker 1: respect or other but what price am i to pay
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  Speaker 1: for all this you shall be happy as you can
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  Speaker 1: wish said he i do assure you and here i
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  Speaker 1: will now give you this purse in which are fifty
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  Speaker 1: guineas which i will allow your father yearly and find
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  Speaker 1: an employ suitable to his liking to deserve that and
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  Speaker 1: more pamela he shall never want depend upon it i
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  Speaker 1: would have given you still more for him but that
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  Speaker 1: perhaps you'd suspect i intended it as a design upon
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  Speaker 1: you oh sir said i take back your guineas i
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  Speaker 1: will not touch one nor will my father i am
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  Speaker 1: sure till he knows what is to be done for
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  Speaker 1: them and particularly what is to become of me why
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  Speaker 1: then pamela said he suppose i find a man of
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  Speaker 1: probity and genteel calling for a husband for you that
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  Speaker 1: shall make you a gentlewoman as long as you live
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  Speaker 1: i want no husband sir said i for now i
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  Speaker 1: began to see him in all his black colours yet
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  Speaker 1: being so much in his power i thought i would
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  Speaker 1: a little dissemble but said he you are so pretty
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  Speaker 1: that go where you will you will never be free
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  Speaker 1: from the designs of some or other of our sex
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  Speaker 1: and i shall think i don't answer the care of
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  Speaker 1: my dying mother for you who committed you to me
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  Speaker 1: if i don't provide you a husband to protect your
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  Speaker 1: virtue and your innocence and a worthy one i have
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  Speaker 1: thought of for you o black perfidious creature thought i
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  Speaker 1: what an implement art thou in the hands of lucifer
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  Speaker 1: to ruin the innocent heart yet still i dissembled for
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  Speaker 1: i feared much both him and the place i was
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  Speaker 1: in but whom pray sir have you thought of why
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  Speaker 1: said he young mr williams my chaplain in lincolnshire who
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  Speaker 1: will make you happy does he know sir said i
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  Speaker 1: any thing of your honor's intentions no my girl said
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  Speaker 1: he and kissed me much against my will for his
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  Speaker 1: very breath was now poison to me but his dependence
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  Speaker 1: upon my favour and your beauty and merit will make
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  Speaker 1: him rejoice at my kindness to him well sir said
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  Speaker 1: i then it is time enough to consider of this
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  Speaker 1: matter and it cannot hinder me from going to my
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  Speaker 1: father's for what will staying a fortnight longer signify to
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  Speaker 1: this your honour's care and goodness may extend to me
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  Speaker 1: there as well as here and mr williams and all
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  Speaker 1: the world shall know that i am not ashamed of
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  Speaker 1: my father's poverty he would kiss me again and i
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  Speaker 1: said if i am to think of mr williams or
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  Speaker 1: anybody i beg you'll not be so free with me
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  Speaker 1: that is not pretty i'm sure well said he but
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  Speaker 1: you stay this next fortnight and in that time i'll
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  Speaker 1: have both williams and your father here for i will
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  Speaker 1: have the match concluded in my house and when i
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  Speaker 1: have brought it on you shall settle it as you
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  Speaker 1: please together meantime take and send only these fifty pieces
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  Speaker 1: to your father as an earnest of my favour and
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  Speaker 1: i'll make you all happy sir said i i beg
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  Speaker 1: at least two hours to consider of this i shall
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  Speaker 1: said he be gone out in one hour and i
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  Speaker 1: would have you write to your father what i propose
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  Speaker 1: and john shall carry it on purpose and he shall
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  Speaker 1: take the purse with him for the good old man
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  Speaker 1: if you approve it sir said i i will then
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  Speaker 1: let you know in one hour my resolution do so
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  Speaker 1: said he and gave me another kiss and let me
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  Speaker 1: go oh how i rejoiced i had got out of
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  Speaker 1: his clutches so i write you this that you may
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  Speaker 1: see how matters stand for i am resolved to come
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  Speaker 1: away if possible baize wicked treacherous gentleman as he is
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  Speaker 1: so here was a trap laid for your poor pamela
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  Speaker 1: i tremble to think of it oh what a scene
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  Speaker 1: of wickedness was here laid down for all my wretched
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  Speaker 1: life black-hearted wretch how i hate him for at first
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  Speaker 1: as you'll see by what i have written he would
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  Speaker 1: have made me believe other things and this of mr
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  Speaker 1: williams i suppose came into his head after he walked
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  Speaker 1: out from his closet to give himself time to think
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  Speaker 1: how to delude me better but the covering was now
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  Speaker 1: too thin and easy to be seen through i went
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  Speaker 1: to my chamber and the first thing i did was
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  Speaker 1: to write to him for i thought it was best
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  Speaker 1: not to see him again if i could help it
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  Speaker 1: and i put it under his parlour door after i
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  Speaker 1: had copied it as follows honoured sir your last proposal
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  Speaker 1: to me convinces me that i ought not to stay
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  Speaker 1: but to go to my father if it were but
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  Speaker 1: to ask his advice about mr williams and i am
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  Speaker 1: so set upon it that i am not to be
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  Speaker 1: persuaded so honored sir with a thousand thanks for all
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  Speaker 1: favors i will set out to-morrow early and the honor
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  Speaker 1: you designed me as mrs jervis tells me of your
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  Speaker 1: chariot there will be no occasion for because i can
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  Speaker 1: hire i believe farmer brady's chaise so begging you will
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  Speaker 1: not make it amiss i shall ever be your dutiful
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  Speaker 1: servant as to the purse sir my poor father to
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  Speaker 1: be sure won't forgive me if i take it till
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  Speaker 1: he can know how to deserve it which is impossible
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  Speaker 1: so he has just now sent mrs jervis to tell
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  Speaker 1: me that since i am resolved to go go i
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  Speaker 1: may and the travelling chariot shall be ready but it
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  Speaker 1: shall be worse for me for that he will never
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  Speaker 1: trouble himself about me as long as he lives well
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  Speaker 1: so i get out of the house i care not
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  Speaker 1: only i should have been glad i could with innocence
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  Speaker 1: have made you my dear parents happy i cannot imagine
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  Speaker 1: the reason of it but john who i thought was
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  Speaker 1: gone with my last is but now going and he
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  Speaker 1: sends to know if i have anything else to carry
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  Speaker 1: so i break off to send you this with the
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  Speaker 1: former i am now preparing for my journey and about
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  Speaker 1: taking leave of my good fellow-servants and if i have
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  Speaker 1: not time to write i must tell you the rest
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  Speaker 1: when i am so happy as to be with you
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  Speaker 1: one word more i slip in a paper of verses
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  Speaker 1: on my going sad poor stuff but as they come
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  Speaker 1: from me you'll not dislike them maybe i showed them
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  Speaker 1: to mrs jervis and she liked them and took a
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  Speaker 1: copy and made one sing them to her and in
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  Speaker 1: the green room too but i looked into the closet
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  Speaker 1: first i will only add that i am your dutiful
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  Speaker 1: daughter let me just say that he has this moment
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  Speaker 1: sent me five guineas by mrs jervis as a present
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  Speaker 1: for my pocket so i shall be very rich for
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  Speaker 1: as she brought them i thought i might take them
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  Speaker 1: he says he won't see me and i may go
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  Speaker 1: when i will in the morning and lincolnshire robin shall
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  Speaker 1: drive me but he is so angry he orders that
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  Speaker 1: nobody shall go out at the door with me not
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  Speaker 1: so much as into the coach-yard well i can't help
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  Speaker 1: it not i but does not this expose himself more
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  Speaker 1: than me but john waits and i would have brought
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  Speaker 1: this and the other myself but he says he has
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  Speaker 1: put it up among other things and so can take
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  Speaker 1: both as well as one john is very good and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: very honest i am under great obligations to him i'd
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: give him a guinea now i'm so rich if i
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: thought he'd take it i hear nothing of my lady's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: clothes and those my master gave me for i told
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: mrs jervis i would not take them but i fancy
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: by a word or two that was dropped they will
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: be sent after me dear sirs what a rich pamela
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you'll have if they should but as i can't wear
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: them if they do i don't desire them and if
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: i have them will turn them into money as i
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: can have opportunity well no more i'm in a fearful
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: hurry verses on my going away one my fellow-servants dear
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: attend to these few lines which i have penned i'm
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: sure they're from your honest friend and wish her well
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: poor pamela two i from a state of low degree
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  Speaker 1: was placed in this good family too high a fate
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: for humble me the helpless hopeless pamela three yet though
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: my happy lot was so joyful i homeward from it
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: go no less content when poor and low than here
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you found your pamela four for what indeed is happiness
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: but conscience innocence and peace and that's a treasure i
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: possess thank heaven that gave it pamela v my future
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: lot i cannot know but this i'm sure where'er i
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: go whate'er i am whate'er i do i'll be the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: grateful pamela six no sad regrets my heart annoy i'll
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: pray for all your peace and joy from master high
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to scullion boy for all your loves to pamela seven
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: one thing or two i've more to say god's holy
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: will be sure obey and for our master always pray
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: as ever shall poor pamela eight for oh we pity
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: should the great instead of envying their estate temptations always
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: on em wait exempt from which are such as we
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: nine their riches gay deceitful snares enlarge their fears increase
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: their cares their servants joy surpasses theirs at least so
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: judges pamela ten your parents and relations love let them
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: your duty ever prove and you'll be blest by heaven
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: above as will i hope poor pamela eleven for if
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: ashamed i e'er could be of my dear parents low
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: degree what lot had been too mean for me unblest
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: unvirtuous pamela twelve thrice happy may you ever be each
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: one in his and her degree and sirs whene'er you
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: think of me pray for content to pamela thirteen pray
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: for her wish'd content and peace and rest assured she'll
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: never cease to pray for all your joys increase while
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: life is lent to pamela fourteen on god all future
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: good depends serve him and so my sonnet ends with
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: thank ye thank ye honest friends for all your loves
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to pamela here it is necessary the reader should know
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: that the fair pamela's trials were not yet over but
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the worst were to come at a time when she
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: thought them at an end and that she was returning
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to her father for when her master found her virtue
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: was not to be subdued and he had in vain
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: tried to conquer his passion for her being a gentleman
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of pleasure and intrigue he had ordered his lincolnshire coachman
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to bring his travelling chariot from thence not caring to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: trust his burfordshire coachman who with the rest of the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: servants so greatly loved and honoured the fair damsel and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: having given him instructions accordingly and prohibited the other servants
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: on pretence of resenting pamela's behaviour from accompanying her any
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: part of the road he drove her five miles on
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the way to her father's and then turning off crossed
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the country and carried her onwards toward his lincolnshire estate
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it is also to be observed that the messenger of
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: her letters to her father who so often pretended business
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: that way was an implement in his master's hands and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: employed by him for that purpose and always gave her
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: letters first to him and his master used to open
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and read them and then send them on by which
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: means as he hints to her as she observes in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: her letter thirty he was no stranger to what she
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: wrote thus every way was the poor virgin beset and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the whole will show the base arts of designing men
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to gain their wicked ends and how much it behoves
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the fair sex to stand upon their guard against artful
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: contrivances especially when riches and power conspire against innocence and
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: low estate a few words more will be necessary to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: make the sequel better understood the intriguing gentleman thought fit
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: however to keep back from her father her three last
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: letters in which she mentions his concealing himself to hear
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: her partitioning out her clothes his last effort to induce
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: her to stay a fortnight his pretended proposal of the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: chaplain and her hopes of speedily seeing them as also
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: her verses and to send himself a letter to her
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: father which is as follows goodman andrews you will wonder
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to receive a letter from me but i think i
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: am obliged to let you know that i have discovered
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the strange correspondence carried on between you and your daughter
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: so injurious to my honour and reputation and which i
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: think you would not have encouraged till you knew there
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: were sufficient grounds for these aspersions which she so plentifully
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: casts upon me something possibly there might be in what
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: she has written from time to time but believe me
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: with all her pretended simplicity and innocence i never knew
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: so much romantic invention as she is mistress of in
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: short the girl's head turned by romances and such idle
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: stuff to which she has given herself up ever since
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: her kind lady's death and she assumes airs as if
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: she was a mirror of perfection and everybody had a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: design upon her don't mistake me however i believe her
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: very honest and very virtuous but i have found out
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: also that she is carrying on a sort of correspondence
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: or love affair with a young clergyman that i hope
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in time to provide for but who at present is
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: destitute of any subsistence but my favour and what would
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: be the consequence can you think of two young folks
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: who have nothing in the world to trust to of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: their own to come together with a family multiplying upon
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: them before they have bread to eat for my part
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: i have too much kindness to them both not to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: endeavour to prevent it if i can and for this
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: reason i have sent her out of his way for
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a little while till i can bring them both to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: better consideration and i would not therefore have you be
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: surprised you don't see your daughter so soon as you
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: might possibly expect yet i do assure you upon my
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: honour that she shall be safe and inviolate and i
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: hope you don't doubt me notwithstanding any airs she may
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: have given herself upon my jocular pleasantry to her and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: perhaps a little innocent romping with her so usual with
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: young folks of the two sexes when they have been
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: long acquainted and grown up together for pride is not
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: my talent as she is a mighty letter-writer i hope
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: she has had the duty to apprise you of her
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: intrigue with the young clergymen and i know not whether
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it meets with your countenance but now she is absent
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: for a little while for i know he would have
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: followed her to your village if she had gone home
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and there perhaps they would have ruined one another by
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: marrying i doubt not i shall bring him to see
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: his interest and that he engages not before he knows
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: how to provide for a wife and when that can
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: be done let them come together in god's name for
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: me i expect not to be answered on this head
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: but by your good opinion and the confidence you may
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: repose in my honour being your hearty friend to serve
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: you p s i find my man john has been
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the manager of the correspondence in which such liberties have
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: been taken with me i shall soon in a manner
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that becomes me let the saucy fellow know how much
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: i resent his part of the affair it is hard
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: thing that a man of my character in the world
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: should be used thus freely by his own servants it
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: is easy to guess at the poor old man's concern
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: upon reading this letter from a gentleman of so much
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: consideration he knew not what course to take and had
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: no manner of doubt of his poor daughter's innocence and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that foul play was designed her yet he sometimes hoped
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the best and was ready to believe the surmised correspondence
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: between the clergyman and her having not received the letters
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: she wrote which would have cleared up that affair but
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: after all he resolved as well as to quiet his
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: own as her mother's uneasiness to undertake a journey to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the squire's and leaving his poor wife to excuse him
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to the farmer who employed him he set out that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: very evening late as it was and travelling all night
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: found himself soon after daylight at the gate of the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: gentleman before the family was up and there he sat
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: down to rest himself till he should see somebody stirring
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the grooms were the first he saw coming out to
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: water their horses and he asked in so distressful a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: manner what was become of pamela that they thought him
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: crazy and said why what have you to do with
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: pamela old fellow get out of the horse's way where
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: is your master said the poor man pray gentlemen don't
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: be angry my heart's almost broken he never gives anything
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: at the door i assure you says one of the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: grooms so you lose your labor i am not a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: beggar yet said the poor old man i want nothing
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: of him but my pamela oh my child my child
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: i'll be hanged says one of them if this is
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: not mrs pamela's father indeed indeed said he wringing his
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: hands i am and weeping where is my child where
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: is my pamela why father said one of them we
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: beg your pardon but she has gone home to you
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: how long have you been come from home oh but
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: last night said he i have travelled all night is
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the squire at home or is he not yes but
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: he is not stirring though said the groom as yet
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: thank god for that said he thank god for that
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: then i hope i may be permitted to speak to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: him anon they asked him to go in and he
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: stepped into the stable and sat down on the stairs
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: there wiping his eyes and sighing so sadly that it
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: grieved the servants to hear him the family was soon
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: raised with a report of pamela's father coming to inquire
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: after his daughter and the maids would fain have had
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: him go into the kitchen but mrs jervis having been
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: told of his coming arose and hastened down to her
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: parlour and took him in with her and there heard
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: all his sad story and read the letter she wept
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: bitterly but yet endeavoured before him to hide her concern
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and said well good men andrews i can't help weeping
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: at your grief but i hope there is no occasion
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: let nobody see this letter whatever you do i dare
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: say your daughter is safe well but said he i
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: see you madam know nothing about her if all was
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: right so good a gentlewoman as you are would not
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: have been a stranger to this to be sure you
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: thought she was with me said she my master does
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: not always inform his servants of his proceedings but you
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: need not doubt his honour you have his hand for
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: it and you may see he can have no design
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: upon her because he is not from hence and does
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: not talk of going hence oh that is all i
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: have to hope for said he that is all indeed
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: but said he and was going on when the report
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: of his coming had reached the squire who came down
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: in his morning gown and slippers into the parlour where
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: he and mrs jervis were talking what's the matter goodman
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: andrews said he what's the matter oh my child said
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the good old man give me my child i beseech
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you why i thought says the squire that i had
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: satisfied you about her sure you have not the letter
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: i sent you written with my own hand yes yes
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: but i have sir said he and that brought me
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: hither and i have walked all night poor man returned
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: he with great seeming compassion i am sorry for it
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: truly why your daughter has made a strange racket in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: my family and if i thought it would have disturbed
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you so much i would have even let her go
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: home but what i did was to serve her and
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you too she is very safe i do assure you
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: goodman andrews and you may have my honor for it
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: i would not injure her for the world do you
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: think i would mrs jervis no i hope not sir
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: said she hope not said the poor man so do
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: i but pray sir give me my child that is
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: all i desire and i'll take care no clergyman shall
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: come near her why london is a great way off
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: said the squire and i can't send for her back
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: presently what then said he have you sent my poor
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: pamela to london i would not have said it so
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: replied the squire but i assure you upon my honour
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: she is quite safe and satisfied and will quickly inform
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you of it by letter she is in a reputable
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: family no less than a bishop's and is to wait
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on his lady till i get the matter over that
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: i mentioned to you oh how shall i know this
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: replied he what said the squire pretending anger am i
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to be doubted do you believe i can have any
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: view upon your daughter and if i had do you
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: think i would take such methods as these to effect
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: it why surely man thou forgettest whom you talkest to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: oh sir said he i beg your pardon but consider
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: my dear child is in this case let me but
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: know what bishop and where and i will travel to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: london on foot to see my daughter and then be
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: satisfied why goodman andrews i think you hast read romances
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: as well as thy daughter and thy head's turned with
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: them may i have not my word taken do you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: think once more i would offer any thing dishonourable to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: your daughter is there any thing looks like it prithee
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: man recollect a little who i am and if i
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: am not to be believed what signifies talking why sir
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: said he pray forgive me but there is no harm
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: to say what bishop's or whereabouts what and so you'd
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: go troubling his lordship with your impertinent fears and stories
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: will you be satisfied if you have a letter from
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: her within a week it may be less if she
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: be not negligent to assure you all is well with
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: her why that said the poor man will be some
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: comfort well then said the gentleman i can't answer for
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: her negligence if she don't write and if she should
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: send a letter to you mrs jervis for i desire
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: not to see it i have had trouble enough about
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: her already be sure you send it by a man
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and horse the moment you receive it to be sure
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: i will answered she thank your honor said the good
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: man and then i must wait with as much patience
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: as i can for a week which will be a
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: year to me i tell you said the gentleman it
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: must be her own fault if she don't write for
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: tis what i insisted upon for my own reputation and
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: i shan't stir from this house i assure you till
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: she is heard from and that to your satisfaction god
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: bless your honour said the poor man as you say
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: and mean truth amen amen good men andrews said he
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: you see i am not afraid to say amen so
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: mrs jervis make the good man as welcome as you
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: can and let me have no uproar about the matter
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: he then whispering her bid her give him a couple
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: of guineas to bear his charges home telling him he
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: should be welcome to stay there till the letter came
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: if he would and be a witness that he intended
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: honorably and not to stir from his house for one
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: while the poor old man stayed and dined with mrs
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: jervis with some tolerable ease of mind in hopes to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: hear from his beloved daughter in a few days and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: then accepting the present returned to his own house and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: resolved to be as patient as possible end of section
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