avaricious, will make
such Doubt causeless.
    Now, my Dear, continued he, I'll tell you how we will order this Point, to
avoid even the Shadow of Uneasiness on one side, or Doubt on the other.
    As to your Father and Mother, in the first Place, they shall be quite out of
the Question; for I have already determined in my Mind about them; and it is
thus: They shall go down, if they and you think well of it, to my little Kentish
Estate; which I once mentioned to you in such a manner, as made you reject it
with a Nobleness of Mind, that gave me Pain then, but Pleasure since. There is a
pretty little Farm and House, untenanted, upon that Estate, and tolerably
stock'd, and I will further stock it for them; for such industrious Folks won't
know how to live without some Employment; and it shall be their's for both their
Lives, without paying any Rent; and I will allow them 50 l. per Annum besides,
that they may keep up the Stock, and be kind to any other of your Relations,
without being beholden to you or me, for small matters; and for greater, where
needful, you shall always have it in your Power to accommodate them; for I shall
never question your Prudence. And we will, so long as God spares our Lives, go
down once a Year to see them, and they shall come up as often as they please, it
cannot be too often, to see us; for I mean not this, my Dear, to send them from
us. - Before I proceed, Does my Pamela like this?
    O, Sir, said I, either I have not Words, or else the English Tongue affords
them not, to express sufficiently my Gratitude. Learn me, dear Sir, continued I,
and pressed his dear Hands to my Lips, learn me some other Language, if there be
any, that abounds with more grateful Terms, that I may not thus be choaked with
Meanings, for which I can find no adequate Utterance.
    My Charmer! says he, your Language is all wonderful, as your Sentiments; and
you most abound when you seem most to want! - All that I wish, is, to find my
Proposals agreeable to you; and if my first are not, my second shall be, if I
can but know what you wish.
    Did I say too much, my dearest Parents, when I said, he was, if possible,