, said he; and pray be only dress'd as you are;
for, as they know your Condition, and I have told them the Story of your present
Dress, and how you came by it, one of the young Ladies begs it as a Favour, that
they may see you just as you are: And I am the rather pleas'd it should be so,
because they will perceive you owe nothing to Dress, and make a much better
Figure with your own native Stock of Loveliness, than the greatest Ladies do in
the most splendid Attire, and stuck out with the most glittering Jewels.
    O Sir, said I, your Goodness beholds your poor Servant in a Light greatly
beyond her Merit! But it must not be expected that others, Ladies especially,
will look at me with your favourable Eyes: But, nevertheless, I should be best
pleas'd to wear always this humble Garb, till you, for your own sake, shall
order it otherwise: For, oh! Sir, said I, I hope it will be always my Pride to
glory most in your Goodness; and it will be a Pleasure to me to shew every one,
that, with respect to my Happiness in this Life, I am intirely the Work of your
Bounty; and to let the World see from what a lowly Original you have rais'd me
to Honours, that the greatest Ladies would rejoice in.
    Admirable Pamela, said he, excellent Girl! -- Surely thy Sentiments are
superior to those of all thy Sex! - I might have addressed a hundred fine
Ladies; but never, surely, could have had Reason to admire one as I do you.
    As, my dear Father and Mother, I repeat these generous Sayings, only as they
are the Effect of my Master's Goodness, and am far from presuming to think I
deserve one of them; so I hope you will not attribute it to my Vanity; for, I do
assure you, I think I ought rather to be more humble, as I am more oblig'd: For
it must be always a Sign of a poor Condition to receive Obligations one cannot
repay; as it is of a rich Mind, when it can confer them, without expecting or
needing a Return. It is, on one side, the State of the human Creature compar'd,
on the other, to the Creator; and so, with due Deference, may be said to be
God-like, and that is the highest that can be said.
 
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