. And I
don't know, added he, but the ensuing Winter, I may give you a little Taste of
the Diversions of the Town for a Month or so. I said, his Will and Pleasure
should determine mine; and I never would, as near as I could, have a Desire
after those, or any other Things that were not in his own Choice.
    He was pleas'd to say, I make no doubt I shall be very happy in you; and
hope you will be so in me: For, said he, I have no very enormous Vices to
gratify; tho' I pretend not to the greatest Purity neither, my Girl. Sir, said
I, if you can account to your own Mind, I shall always be easy in whatever you
do. But our greatest Happiness here, Sir, continued I, is of very short
Duration; and this Life, where longest, is a poor transitory Stage; and I hope
we shall be so happy as to be enabled to look forward, with Comfort, to one
other, where our Pleasures will be everlasting.
    You say well, Pamela, and I shall, by degrees, be more habituated to this
way of thinking, as I more and more converse with you; but at present, you must
not be over serious with me, all at once. Tho' I charge you, never forbear to
mingle your sweet Divinity in our Conversation, whenever it can be brought in
à-propos, and with such a Chearfulness of Temper, as shall not throw a gloomy
Cloud over our innocent Enjoyments.
    I was abash'd at this, and silent, fearing I had offended; but he said, If
you attend rightly to what I said, I need not tell you again, Pamela, not to be
discourag'd from suggesting to me, on every proper Occasion, the pious Impulses
of your own amiable Mind. Sir, said I, you will be always indulgent, I make no
doubt, to my Imperfections, so long as I mean well.
    My Master made me dine with him, and would eat nothing but what I help'd him
to; and my Heart is, every Hour, more and more inlarg'd with his Goodness and
Condescension. But still, what ails me, I wonder! a strange sort of Weight hangs
upon my Mind, as Thursday draws on, which makes me often sigh involuntarily, and
damps, at times, the Pleasures of my delightful Prospects! - I hope this is not
ominous; but only the foolish Weakness
