s directed to me. But both are stark naught,
abominably bad! She brought me up that directed for me, and said,
Here's a letter for you: Long-looked-for is come at last. I will ask the
messenger a few questions, and then I will read mine. So she went down,
and I broke it open in my closet, and found it directed To MRS. PAMELA
ANDREWS. But when I opened it, it began, Mrs. Jewkes. I was quite
confounded; but, thought I, this may be a lucky mistake; I may discover
something: And so I read on these horrid contents:

'MRS. JEWKES,

'What you write me, has given me no small disturbance. This wretched
fool's play-thing, no doubt, is ready to leap at any thing that offers,
rather than express the least sense of gratitude for all the benefits
she has received from my family, and which I was determined more and
more to heap upon her. I reserve her for my future resentment; and I
charge you double your diligence in watching her, to prevent her escape.
I send this by an honest Swiss, who attended me in my travels; a man I
can trust; and so let him be your assistant: for the artful creature is
enough to corrupt a nation by her seeming innocence and simplicity; and
she may have got a party, perhaps, among my servants with you, as she
has here. Even John Arnold, whom I confided in, and favoured more than
any, has proved an execrable villain; and shall meet his reward for it.

'As to that college novice, Williams, I need not bid you take care
he sees not this painted bauble: for I have ordered Mr. Shorter, my
attorney, to throw him instantly into gaol, on an action of debt, for
money he has had of me, which I had intended never to carry to account
against him; for I know all his rascally practices, besides what you
write me of his perfidious intrigue with that girl, and his acknowledged
contrivances for her escape; when he knew not, for certain, that I
designed her any mischief; and when, if he had been guided by a sense
of piety, or compassion for injured innocence, as he pretends, he would
have expostulated with me, as his function, and my friendship for him,
might have allowed him. But to enter into a vile intrigue with the
amiable gewgaw, to favour her escape in so base a manner, (to say
nothing of his disgraceful practices against me, in Sir Simon Darnford's
family, of which Sir Simon himself has informed me), is a conduct that,
instead of preferring the ungrateful wretch, as I had intended, shall
pull down upon him utter ruin.