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Letter VII

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2022

Albert J. Rivero
Affiliation:
Marquette University, Wisconsin
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My dear good Lady,

You have done me great Honour in the Letter your Ladyship has been pleased to send me; and it is a high Pleasure to me, now all is so happily over, that my poor Papers were in the least diverting to you and to such honourable and worthy Persons as your Ladyship is pleased to mention. I could wish, my dear Lady, I might be favour’d with such Remarks on my Conduct, (so nakedly set forth, without any Imagination that they would ever appear in such an Assembly) as may be of Use to me in my future Life, and make me, by that means, more worthy than it is otherwise possible I can be, of the Honour to which I am raised. Do, dearest Lady, favour me so far: I am prepared to receive Blame, and to benefit by it, and cannot expect Praise so much from my Actions as from my Intentions; for, indeed, these were always just and honourable: But why even for these do I talk of Praise, since, being prompted by Impulses I could not resist, it can be no Merit in me to have been govern’d by them?

As to the Papers following those in your Ladyship's Hands, when I say, that they must needs appear impertinent to such Judges, after what you know, I dare say your Ladyship will not insist upon them; yet I will not scruple briefly to mention what they contain.

All my Dangers and Trials were happily at an End; So that they only contain “the Conversations that passed between your Ladyship's generous Brother and me; his kind Assurances of honourable Love to me; my Acknowledgments of Unworthiness to him; Mrs. Jewkes's respectful Change of Behaviour towardsme; Mr. B.'s Reconciliation to Mr. Williams; his introducing me to the good Families in the Neighbourhood, and avowing before them his honourable Intentions. A Visit frommy honest Father, who (not knowing what to conclude from the Letter I wrote to him before I returned to your honoured Brother, desiring my Papers from him) came in great Anxiety of Heart to know the worst, doubting I had at last been caught by a Stratagem that had ended in my Ruin. His joyful Surprize to find how happy I was likely to be.

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Print publication year: 2012

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  • Letter VII
  • Samuel Richardson
  • Edited by Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University, Wisconsin
  • Book: Pamela in Her Exalted Condition
  • Online publication: 30 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139033480.012
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  • Letter VII
  • Samuel Richardson
  • Edited by Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University, Wisconsin
  • Book: Pamela in Her Exalted Condition
  • Online publication: 30 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139033480.012
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  • Letter VII
  • Samuel Richardson
  • Edited by Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University, Wisconsin
  • Book: Pamela in Her Exalted Condition
  • Online publication: 30 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139033480.012
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