Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded; In a Series of Letters, From a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents: Designed to Inculcate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Youth of Both Sexes
While young Richardson was pursuing his. Juvenile studies, he endeared himself to the more serious part: of his. Schoolfellows, ' by either relating the stories which he had read, or inventing others for their amusement; and with these last they were gene rally the best pleased. At the age of fifteen, moreover, his mo dest behaviour intrpduced him into the company of several young women in the neighbourhood, to whom he used to read, while they worked at their needle and, as be'was remarkable for his taciturnity, they made him their confident and secretary in their love affairs; in which he acquitted himself with sucb discretion, that not one of his fair employers ever knew that he was en. Trusted by any other.
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