WEDNESDAY MORNING, SIX O'CLOCK
At your desire , and to oblige your honoured mamma , and your good neighbours , I will now acquaint you with the arrival of Lady Davers , and will occasionally write what passes among us , I will not say worthy of notice ; for were I only to do so , I should be more brief , perhaps , by much , than you seem to expect . But as my time is pretty much taken up , and I find I shall be obliged to write a bit now , and a bit then , you must excuse me , if I dispense with some forms , which I ought to observe , when I write to one I so dearly love ; and so I will give it journal-wise , as it were , and have no regard , when it would fetter or break in upon my freedom of narration , to inscription or subscription ; but send it as I have opportunity , and if you please to favour me so far , as to lend it me , after you have read the stuff , for the perusal of my father and mother , to whom my duty , and promise require me to give an account of my proceedings , it will save me transcription , for which I shall have no time ; and then you will excuse blots and blurs , and I will trouble myself no farther for apologies on that score , but this once for all . If you think it worth while when they have read it , you shall have it again . WEDNESDAY MORNING , SIX O'CLOCK . For my dear friend permits me to rise an hour sooner than usual , that I may have time to scribble ; for he is always pleased to see me so employed , or in reading ; often saying , when I am at my needle , -LRB- as his sister once wrote -RRB- `` Your maids can do this , Pamela : but they can not write as you can . '' And yet , as he says , when I choose to follow my needle , as a diversion from too intense study , -LRB- but , alas ! I know not what study is , as may be easily guessed by my hasty writing , putting down every thing as it comes -RRB- I shall then do as I please .