thought, for not complying with his wickedness: And this shews me well
enough what I have to expect from his future goodness, except I will
deserve it at his own dear price.

She was silent; and I added, Well, there's no more to be said; I must go,
that's certain: All my concern will be how to part with you: and, indeed,
after you, with every body; for all my fellow-servants have loved me, and
you and they will cost me a sigh, and a tear too, now and then, I am
sure. And so I fell a crying: I could not help it. For it is a pleasant
thing to one to be in a house among a great many fellow-servants, and be
beloved by them all.

Nay, I should have told you before now, how kind and civil Mr. Longman
our steward is; vastly courteous, indeed, on all occasions! And he said
once to Mrs. Jervis, he wished he was a young man for my sake; I should
be his wife, and he would settle all he had upon me on marriage; and, you
must know, he is reckoned worth a power of money.

I take no pride in this; but bless God, and your good examples, my dear
parents, that I have been enabled so to carry myself, as to have every
body's good word; Not but our cook one day, who is a little snappish and
cross sometimes, said once to me, Why this Pamela of ours goes as fine as
a lady. See what it is to have a fine face!--I wonder what the girl will
come to at last!

She was hot with her work; and I sneaked away; for I seldom go down into
the kitchen; and I heard the butler say, Why, Jane, nobody has your good
word: What has Mrs. Pamela done to you? I am sure she offends nobody.
And what, said the peevish wench, have I said to her, foolatum; but that
she was pretty? They quarrelled afterwards, I heard: I was sorry for it,