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The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Fielding
The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Fielding Author:Henry Fielding Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. Sow Jteeph Andrews wrote a letter to his eister Pamela. To Mrs. Pamela Andrews, living with Squire Booby, " Dear Sister, " Since I received yo... more »ur letter of your good lady's death, we have had a misfortune of the same kind in our family. My worthy master Sir Thomas died about four days ago; and what is worse, my poor lady is certainly gone distracted. None of the servants expected her to take it so to heart, because they quarrelled almost every day of their lives: but no more of that, because you know, Pamela, I never loved to tell the secrets of my master's family; but to be sure you must have known they never loved one another; and I have heard her ladyship wish bis honour dead above a thousand times; but nobody knows what it is to lose a friend till they have lost him. "Don't tell any body what I write, because I should not care to have folks say I discover what passes in our family; but if it had not been so great a lady, I should have thought she had had a mind to me. Dear Pamela, don't tell any body: but she ordered me to sit down by her bed-side, when she was naked in bed ; and she held my hand and talked exactly as a lady does to her sweetheart in a stage-play, which I have seen in Covent-Garden, while she wanted him to be no better than he should be. " If madam be mad, I shall not care for staying long in the family ; so I heartily wish you could get me a place, either at the squire's or some other neighbouring gentleman's, unless it be true that yon are to be married to Parson Williams, as folks talk, and then I should be very willing to be his clerk; for which you know I am qualified, being able to read, and to set a psalm. " I fancy I shall be discharged very soon; and the moment I am, unless I hear from you, I shall return to my old master's ...« less