 and Mistress, the honest Man had,
from nothing, in a few Years amassed a small Sum of twenty thousand Pounds or
thereabouts.
    Joseph having received his little Remainder of Wages, and having stript off
his Livery, was forced to borrow a Frock and Breeches of one of the Servants:
(for he was so beloved in the Family, that they would all have lent him any
thing) and being told by Peter, that he must not stay a Moment longer in the
House, than was necessary to pack up his Linnen, which he easily did in a very
narrow Compass; he took a melancholy Leave of his Fellow-Servants, and set out
at seven in the Evening.
    He had proceeded the length of two or three Streets, before he absolutely
determined with himself, whether he should leave the Town that Night, or
procuring a Lodging, wait 'till the Morning. At last, the Moon, shining very
bright, helped him to come to a Resolution of beginning his Journey immediately,
to which likewise he had some other Inducements which the Reader, without being
a Conjurer, cannot possibly guess; 'till we have given him those hints, which it
may be now proper to open.
 

                                   Chapter XI

                      Of several new Matters not expected.
 
It is an Observation sometimes made, that to indicate our Idea of a simple
Fellow, we say, He is easily to be seen through: Nor do I believe it a more
improper Denotation of a simple Book. Instead of applying this to any particular
Performance, we chuse rather to remark the contrary in this History, where the
Scene opens itself by small degrees, and he is a sagacious Reader who can see
two Chapters before him.
    For this reason, we have not hitherto hinted a Matter which now seems
necessary to be explained; since it may be wondered at, first, that Joseph made
such extraordinary haste out of Town, which hath been already shewn; and
secondly, which will be now shewn, that instead of proceeding to the Habitation
of his Father and Mother, or to his beloved Sister Pamela, he chose rather to
set out full speed to the Lady Booby's Country Seat, which he had left on his
Journey to London.
    Be it known then, that in the same Parish where this Seat stood, there lived
a young Girl whom Joseph (tho' the best of Sons and Brothers) longed more
impatiently to see than his Parents or his Sister. She was a poor Girl, who had
been formerly bred up in Sir John's Family; whence a little before the Journey
to London, she
