7.  We have all smiled at your paradox, Pamela, that his marrying you was an instance of his pride.—­The thought, though, is pretty enough, and ingenious; but whether it will hold or not, I won’t just now examine.

8.  Your observation on the forget and forgive we are much pleased with.

9.  You are very good in sending me a copy of Miss Darnford’s letter.  She is a charming young lady.  I always had a great opinion of her merit; her letter abundantly confirms me in it.  I hope you’ll communicate to me every letter that passes between you, and pray send in your next a copy of your answer to her letter:  I must insist upon it, I think.

10.  I am glad, with all my heart, to hear of poor Jewkes’s reformation:  Your example carries all before it.  But pray oblige me with your answer to her letter, don’t think me unreasonable:  ’tis all for your sake.

Pray—­have you shewn Jewkes’s letter to your good friend?—­Lady Betty wants to know (if you have) what he could say to it?  For, she says, it cuts him to the quick.  And I think so too, if he takes it as he ought:  but, as you say, he’s above loving virtue for virtue’s sake.

11.  Your manner of acting by Mrs. Jervis, with so handsome a regard to my brother’s interest, her behaviour upon it, and your relation of the whole, and of his generous spirit in approving, reproving, and improving, your prudent generosity, make no inconsiderable figure in your papers.  And Lady Betty says, “Hang him, he has some excellent qualities too.—­It is impossible not to think well of him; and his good actions go a great way towards atoning for his bad.”  But you, Pamela, have the glory of all.

12.  I am glad you are learning French:  thou art a happy girl in thy teacher, and he is a happy man in his scholar.  We are pleased with your pretty account of his method of instructing and rewarding.  ’Twould be strange, if you did not thus learn any language quickly, with such encouragements, from the man you love, were your genius less apt than it is.  But we wished you had enlarged on that subject:  for such fondness of men to their wives, who have been any time married, is so rare, and so unexpected from my brother, that we thought you should have written a side upon that subject at least.

What a bewitching girl art thou!  What an exemplar to wives now, as well as thou wast before to maidens!  Thou canst tame lions, I dare say, if thoud’st try.—­Reclaim a rake in the meridian of his libertinism, and make such an one as my brother, not only marry thee, but love thee better at several months’ end, than he did the first day, if possible!

Now, my dear Pamela, I think I have taken notice of the most material articles in your letters, and have no more to say to you; but write on, and oblige us; and mind to send me the copy of your letter to Miss Darnford, of that you wrote to poor penitent Jewkes, and every article I have written about, and all that comes into your head, or that passes, and you’ll oblige yours, &c,