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Mrs. Jewkes
Mrs. Jervis is Pamela’s main ally in her new job as a servant for Mr. B. She is an older woman who provides advice to the young and naïve Pamela, acting like a surrogate parent figure. While Pamela and Pamela’s mother and father all have the utmost faith in Mrs. Jervis, she sometimes gives bad advice. Particularly when Pamela is new, Mrs. Jervis underestimates how aggressively Mr. B is willing to act toward Pamela. Nevertheless, when Mrs. Jervis realizes how far Mr. B is willing to go to satisfy his lust, she does whatever she can to protect Pamela, eventually getting dismissed for her efforts. At the end, however, after Pamela marries Mr. B, Pamela rehires Mrs. Jervis and rewards her handsomely for her efforts. Mrs. Jervis’s story echoes Pamela’s, then, as it shows how virtuous behavior eventually pays off.
Mrs. Jervis Quotes in Pamela
The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Jervis or refer to Mrs. Jervis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Letter 10
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For I am watch’d, and such-like, very narrowly; and he says to Mrs. Jervis, This girl is always scribbling; I think she may be better employ’d.
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Letter 24
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Say no more, Mrs. Jervis; for by G—d I will have her!
Letter 32
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Why now, says she, how strangely you talk! Are not the two Sexes made for one another? And is it not natural for a Gentleman to love a pretty Woman? And suppose he can obtain his Desires, is that so bad as cutting her Throat? And then the Wretch fell a laughing, and talk’d most impertinently, and shew’d me, that I had nothing to expect from her Virtue or Conscience
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Your poor Pamela cannot answer for the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State of Death.
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Mrs. Jervis Quotes in Pamela
The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Jervis or refer to Mrs. Jervis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Letter 10
Quotes
For I am watch’d, and such-like, very narrowly; and he says to Mrs. Jervis, This girl is always scribbling; I think she may be better employ’d.
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Letter 24
Quotes
Say no more, Mrs. Jervis; for by G—d I will have her!
Letter 32
Quotes
Why now, says she, how strangely you talk! Are not the two Sexes made for one another? And is it not natural for a Gentleman to love a pretty Woman? And suppose he can obtain his Desires, is that so bad as cutting her Throat? And then the Wretch fell a laughing, and talk’d most impertinently, and shew’d me, that I had nothing to expect from her Virtue or Conscience
The Journal
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Your poor Pamela cannot answer for the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State of Death.
