The them about three half Crowns a Chair. Window Curtains of Ruffel, there is a Table will ferve for eight, a Card and a Tea-Table, a ·Chimney and a Pier Glafs, and a genteel Brafs Hearth for Wood, with neat Tongs, &c. there are a great many pretty Prints hung round the Room in Pear-tree black Frames edged with Gold, and Glafs over the Pictures. In the Store-room there are feveral Neceffaries, among others a Rack laden with Flitches of Bacon, and Hams, and a large powdering Tub filled with falted Beef and Pork; four Sacks of Flower, one of them of the finest Sort; fome Hampers of Wine, and Boxes of Candles. In the Kitchen is every individual thing necef-. fary for a Family, even to Larding-Pins; the Dairy is alfo well furnish'd, and has now in it the Butter and Milk of thirty fine Cows of thefe two laft Days Meals; the Stable-Lofts are full of Hay, and the Binns of Corn; there are four ftout CartHorfes, befides the Pad that my dear Mr. Bgave my Father; in the Stables a Vaggon and Cote, that is a finall Cart, Wheel-barrows, Ploughs, Harrows, &c. in the Sherls: Here is another Yard furrounded with Barns; little in them but Straw. In a Word, there is nothing wanting; but let us now go up Stairs. No, I think we had better firft vifit the Cellar, as 'tis called, 'tis in a Wing,. which our dear Mafter has added to the Houfe, containing that, and a pretty Brew houfe, furnifh'd thoroughly: The Cellar is well ftock d with fmall and ftrong Beer, a Door opens into it out of the Hall, and another into the Brew-houfe from the Fore-Court-Yard. Now give me your Hand, we will go up Stairs together, they are wide enough for two a-breaft; D thefe thefe too our dear Mafter has new built, and furnish'd with Maps; here's a handsome Half-Space, and good Landing, which leads us to four pretty Bed-Chambers, neatly, but plainly furnish'd with every thing neceffary, clean and good. In my Parents Room, befide other Neceflaries, there is a handfome Cheft of Drawers, and two large Trunks covered with red Leather, full of Sheets and Table Linnen. Up one Pair of Stairs more are the Servants Rooms furnifh'd.. You fee my dear Mafter is not beneficent by Halves: How does his Goodnefs bind me to him by the indiffoluble Bands of Love and Gratitude? What Obfervance of mine, what Affection can make him, in Part, amends! may the great Fountain of Mercy who has given him, reward this generous Heart, and keep me ever ftedfaft in that Duty I owe to both the firft bountiful, and the fecond tender Caufe of my prefent Happiness. How happy am I but we will now take a Turn into a neat little Garden, at the End of which Mr. B has built a pretty Summer-Houfe, and ffock'd it with well chofen Books. The Orchard is large, and planted with a Number of good Fruit-Trees. I fear leading you thus thro' the Houfe, OutHoufes, Court-Yards and Gardens has tired you, (tho' my Spirits are fo raifed I am infenfible of any, Fatigue) wherefore having fhewn you the agreeable Retreat my dear Mafter has given to my aged Parents, I return. At the Tenants going away Mr. B faid, Mr. Longman, we are come to turn you out of Poffeffion. I very gladly, replied he, give it up. My beneficent Mafter handed my Mother into the Parlour, where faluting her, and embracing my Father, he faid, this Houfe is yours, and may you anfwer myk you both live many Years happy in it: That you may not think you have any Obligations on you, I fhall defire Mr. Andrews to manage this Eftate for me; the whole is 500l. per Annum, one Hundred I defire he will accept yearly for his Trouble, and should you be freighten'd, I entreat you will make ufe of what farther Money may of rendering your Lives entirely eafy. My Father was going to fpeak, when he prevented him, by adding, if you will thoroughly oblige me, return me no Thanks for performing Part of my Duty; you are my Pamela's Parents, and I can never do enough for those whom the fo tenderly loves, or repay you the pious Care of her Education, which has made me the happieft Man breathing. I threw myfelf on my Knees, clafp'd his Legs; but a Flood of Tears, which better fpoke my Joy and Gratitude than Words, prevented my faying more than, O my lov'd Lord and Mafter: He took me up, holding me in his Arms, and every now and then kiffing me, faid to Mr. Longman, I hope nothing neceffary is wanting? I hope not, Sir, replied he; here are the Keys of the Drawers and Trunks; give them to Mrs. Andrews; and, Father, continued he, we will leave our Wives awhile, and vifit your Houfe; come, Longman, let us fee how you have furnish'd it. They return'd in a little time, and Mr. B told Mr. Longman, he would be fo free, as he was his Gueft this Evening, to defire we might have Supper pretty early. My Mother, faid he, and my Pamela, are, I believe, a little fatigued. Father, you know your Bed-Chamber, if you don't prefer another to it; wherefore I won't give Mrs. Andrews the Trouble of going to fee it, till fhe withdraws for the Night. Sir, replied the good old Longman, will be upon the Tablesby Nine. T rejoin'd our dear Mafter; but will to fay, that I thought Mr. Longm polite and more hofpitable than I fi don the Pun, but I think you give ception; Mr. Andrews and I could a Glafs of Wine, and I am fure it w in my Mother, and any Charme Company. 2 Really, Sir, anfwer'd the good ol fo overjoy'd to fee you all here, looks fo pleased, that the Pleafure I out of my Thoughts, or rather wo me to think at all; but I'll inftan Fault. He was going out, but Mr. Bof his Sleeve, and bid me ring a H lay on a Table, near my Chair Go and my dear Mafter asking Mr, Name of his Houfe-maid; he repli Then, brand, faid he, fend Marg let Jonathan give her a Bottle of bring in. You have Glaffes, I Longman. Yes, yes, Sir, fhe know find them; bid her bring fome, M on a Salver, faid Mr. Longman. The Maid brought in the Wine but the good-natured Mr. B Confufion, would not let her fill for dered her to fet them on the Tabl did, and was, I believe, heartily glad mi's'd; for I know, by what I hav perienced, the Pain a raw Girl feels Perfons greatly above her; fuch ar an Awe, which renders them till m and their Over-Diligence, and Defir 4 make them do wrong. I commonly sympathize with them, and am as glad as they, when they are difcharged from attending. We had Supper upon Table exactly at Nine; at half an Hour paft Ten we prepared for Bed, my dear Mafter, Mr. Longman, and Self, having seen my dear Parents into their Chamber, Mr. Longman faid, you are now, Sir, and my dear Lady, Mr. Andrews's Guefts henceforward during your Stay here; but 'tis Time I fhould allow you fome Reft, and here break off. To-morrow I will refume my Journal, and with my Account may be as entertaining to you as the Reflection on the Mercies I have experienced, and my dear Mr. B's tender Goodnefs and Bounty is grateful to me. May the great Being of Beings preferve you, my dear Mrs. Jervis." My dear Friend Jervis;our dear Mafter, Mr. Longman, and my Father, rode out to look at the Stock, and visit the Grounds. I was up before my Mother, and having paid my Duty to my bountiful Creator, fat me down to read the Leffons of the Day, the 103d was one of the Pfalms; I could not help endeavouring to verfify it. As I know you are too indulgent to me to be a fevere Critick, I fend it you without Apology. PSALM CHII. O thou, my Soul, thy grateful Tribute bring, And chant the Praises of th'eternal King And O, may ev'ry Faculty of mine, To blefs his glorious, boly Name, combine. From |