such a poor girl, that the housekeeper would bear me company, if I went.

Said he to her, Well, Mrs. Jervis, Longman says you have made up your
accounts with him with your usual fidelity and exactness. I had a good
mind to make you an offer of continuing with me, if you can be a little
sorry for your hasty words, which, indeed, were not so respectful as I
have deserved at your hands. She seemed at a sad loss what to say,
because Mr. Longman was there, and she could not speak of the occasion of
those words, which was me.

Indeed, said Mr. Longman, I must needs say before your face, that since I
have known my master's family, I have never found such good management in
it, nor so much love and harmony neither. I wish the Lincolnshire estate
was as well served!--No more of that, said my master; but Mrs. Jervis may
stay, if she will: and here, Mrs. Jervis, pray accept of this, which at
the close of every year's accounts I will present you with, besides your
salary, as long as I find your care so useful and agreeable. And he gave
her five guineas.--She made him a low courtesy, and thanking him, looked
to me, as if she would have spoken to me.

He took her meaning, I believe; for he said,--Indeed I love to encourage
merit and obligingness, Longman; but I can never be equally kind to those
who don't deserve it at my hands, as to those who do; and then he looked
full on me. Longman, continued he, I said that girl might come in with
Mrs. Jervis, because they love to be always together. For Mrs. Jervis is
very good to her, and loves her as well as if she was her daughter. But
else--Mr. Longman, interrupting him, said, Good to Mrs. Pamela! Ay, sir,
and so she is, to be sure! But every body must be good to her; for----

He was going on: but my master said, No more, no more, Mr. Longman. I