was, one Evening, when I was reading her Reflections
at the _Pond_ to some Company. The little rampant Intruder, being
kept out by the Extent of the Circle, had crept under my Chair, and
was sitting before me, on the Carpet, with his Head almost touching
the Book, and his Face bowing down toward the Fire.---He had sat for
some time in this Posture, with a Stillness, that made us conclude
him asleep: when, on a sudden, we heard a Succession of
heart-heaving Sobs; which while he strove to conceal from our
Notice, his little Sides swell'd, as if they wou'd burst, with the
throbbing Restraint of his Sorrow. I turn'd his innocent Face, to
look toward me; but his Eyes were quite lost, in his _Tears_: which
running down from his Cheeks in free Currents, had form'd two
sincere little Fountains, on that Part of the Carpet he hung over.
All the Ladies in Company were ready to devour him with Kisses: and
he has, since, become doubly a Favourite---and is perhaps the
youngest of _Pamela's Converts_.}

_The same [_del._ 5th] {incomparable} Writer has favour'd us with an
Objection, [_del._ 5th] {that is more material than any we have
mention'd;} which cannot be better stated nor answer'd, than in his own
[_del._ 8th] {beautiful} Words; viz._

An Objection is come into my Thoughts, which I should be glad the
Author would think proper to obviate in the Front of the Second
Edition.

There are Mothers, or Grandmothers, in all Families of affluent
Fortune, who, tho' they may have none of Lady _Davers_'s
_Insolence_, will be apt to feel one of her _Fears_,---that the
Example of a Gentleman so amiable as Mr. B--- may be follow'd, by
the _Jackies, their Sons_, with too blind and unreflecting a
Readiness. Nor does the Answer of that Gentleman to his Sister's
Reproach come quite up to the Point they will rest on. For, tho'
indeed it is true, all the World wou'd acquit the best Gentleman in
it, if he married _such_ a Waiting-maid as _Pamela_, yet, there is
an ill-discerning Partiality, in Passion, that will overthrow all
the Force of that Argument: because _every belov'd Maid will be
PAMELA_, in a Judgment obscur'd by her Influence.

And, since the Ground of this Fear will _seem_ solid, I don't know
how to be easy, till it is shewn (nor ought it to be left to the
Author's Modesty) that they who consider his Design in that Light
will be found but short-sighted Observers.