But I am to tell you of my new dress to day.

And so, when I had dined, up stairs I went, and locked myself into my
little room. There I tricked myself up as well as I could in my new
garb, and put on my round-eared ordinary cap; but with a green knot,
however, and my homespun gown and petticoat, and plain leather shoes; but
yet they are what they call Spanish leather; and my ordinary hose,
ordinary I mean to what I have been lately used to; though I shall think
good yarn may do very well for every day, when I come home. A plain
muslin tucker I put on, and my black silk necklace, instead of the French
necklace my lady gave me; and put the ear-rings out of my ears; and when
I was quite equipped, I took my straw hat in my hand, with its two blue
strings, and looked about me in the glass, as proud as any thing--To say
truth, I never liked myself so well in my life.

O the pleasure of descending with ease, innocence, and resignation!--
Indeed, there is nothing like it! An humble mind, I plainly see, cannot
meet with any very shocking disappointment, let fortune's wheel turn
round as it will.

So I went down to look for Mrs. Jervis, to see how she liked me.

I met, as I was upon the stairs, our Rachel, who is the house-maid; and
she made me a low courtesy, and I found did not know me. So I smiled,
and went to the housekeeper's parlour; and there sat good Mrs. Jervis at
work, making a shift: and, would you believe it? she did not know me at
first; but rose up, and pulled off her spectacles; and said, Do you want
me, forsooth? I could not help laughing, and said, Hey-day! Mrs. Jervis,
what! don't you know me?--She stood all in amaze, and looked at me from
top to toe: Why, you surprise me, said she: What! Pamela thus