How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
. . . I have nothing to say but what will make me look more like a vain Hussy, than any thing else: Yet I hope I shan't be so proud as to forget myself. Yet there is a secret Pleasure one has to hear one's self prais'd. (7.1)
Pamela was humble bragging before the hashtag was invented. Seriously, it's almost admirable how Pamela manages to relay all the fantastic things people say about her without sounding like a completely vain "hussy." (Her words, not ours.)
Quote #2
But this is more Pride to me, that I am come of such honest Parents, than if I had been born a Lady. (8.1)
But what if you had been born a lady and came from honest parents, hm?? Now that would be something to be proud of.
Quote #3
I tell you this, that I am very much displeased with the Freedoms you have taken with my Name to my House-keeper, as also to your Father and Mother; and you may as well have real Cause to take these Freedoms with me, as to make my Name suffer for imaginary ones: And saying so, he offer'd to take me on his Knee, with some Force. O how I was terrify'd! (18.11)
Check out Mr. B's twisted logic: attacking Pamela is totally justifiable—nay, appropriate!--punishment for the damage she has done to his name by telling other people about his behavior. Uh-huh. This here, Shmoopers, is what we call the bad kind of pride.