![]() Thus do I pray, imperfectly as I am forced by my distracting Fears and Apprehensions and O join with me, my dear Parents!-But, alas! how can you know, how can I reveal to you, the dreadful Situa|tion of your poor Daughter? The unhappy Pa|mela may be undone, (which God forbid, and sooner deprive me of Life I) before you can know my hard Lot. And still, I hope, desperate as my Condition seems, that as those Trials are not of my own seeking, nor the Effects of ray Presumption and Vanity, I shall be enabled to overcome them, and, in God's own good Time, be delivered from them. To do but write, and weep, and fear,and pray! But yet what can I hope for, when I seem to be devoted, as a Victim to the Will of a wicked Violator of all the Laws of God and Man?-But, gracious Heaven, forgive me my Rashness and Despondency! O let me not sin against thee for thou best knowest what is fittest for thy poor Handmaid:-And as thou sufferest not thy poor Creatures to be tempted above what they can bear, I will resign to thy good Pleasure. LET me write and bewail my miserable hard Fate, tho' I have no Hope, that what I write will be convey'd to your Hands!- I have now nothing
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