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PAMELA;

OR,

Virtue Rewarded.

In a Series of Familiar Letters, &c.

LETTER I.

Dear Father and Mother,

I Have great Trouble and ſome Comfort, to acquaint you with. The Trouble is, that my good Lady died of the Illneſs I mention'd to you, and left us all much grieved for her Loſs; for ſhe was a dear good Lady, and kind to all us her Servants. Much I fear'd, that as I was taken by her Ladyſship to wait upon her Perſon, I ſould quite deſtitute again, and forc'd to return to you and