Pamela by Samuel Richardson

Author:Samuel Richardson [Richardson, Samuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Romance
ISBN: 9780140431407
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Amazon: B001APK5AY
Goodreads: 767452
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1740-01-02T12:00:00+00:00

Three o’clock

He continues exceedingly wroth. He has ordered his travelling chariot to be got ready with all speed. What is to come next, I wonder!

Sure I did not say so much! But see the lordliness of a high condition! A person of low degree must not put in a word, when the great take it into their heads to be angry! What a fine time a young creature of unequal condition would have, if she were even to marry such an one! My good lady, his dear mother, spoiled him at first. Nobody must speak to him, or contradict him, as I have heard, when he was a child; and so he has not been used to be controuled, and cannot bear the least thing mat crosses his violent will. This is one of the blessings attending men of high condition! Much good may do them with their pride of birth, and pride of fortune! All that it serves for, as far as I can see, is to multiply their disquiets, and every body’s else, that has to do with them.

So, so! where will this end! Mrs Jewkes has been with me from him, and she says, I must quit the house this moment! ‘Well,’ said I, ‘but whither am I to be carried next?’ ‘Why, home,’ said she, ‘to your father and mother.’ ‘And, can it be?’ said I: ‘no, no, I doubt I am not to be so happy as that! To be sure, some bad design is on foot again! To be sure it is! Sure, sure, Mrs Jewkes,’ said I, ‘he has not found out some other house-keeper worse than you!’

She was very angry, you may well mink; and went from me muttering.

She came up again. ‘Are you ready?’ said she. ‘Bless me!’ said I, ‘you are very hasty: I have heard of this not a quarter of an hour ago. But I shall be soon ready; for I have but little to take with me, and no kind friends in this house to take leave of, to delay me.’ Yet, like a fool, I could not help crying. ‘Pray,’ said I, ‘just step down, and ask, if I may not have my papers? ’

I don’t know what to think, nor how to judge; but I shall never believe I am with you, till I am on my knees before you, begging both your blessings. Yet I am sorry he is so angry with me ! I thought I did not say so much.

There is, I see, the chariot drawn out, the horses too, the grim Colbrand going to get on horse-back. What will be the end of all this?

I am quite ready now; and only wait for an answer about my papers. And so I will put in my bosom the few I have left. But did I say so much?

THE END OF VOLUME I

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