How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
You are, said my dearest Sir, very good to me, Madam, I am sure. I have taken Liberties in my former Life, that deserved not so much Excellence. I have offended extremely, by Trials glorious to my Pamela, but disgraceful to me, against a Virtue that I now consider as almost sacred; and I shall not think I deserve her, till I can bring my Manners, my Sentiments, and my Actions, to a Conformity with her own. (92.166)
Though Mr. B generally continues to boss Pamela around after they get married (e.g., he gives her a list of rules for her conduct that's as long as Ulysses), this is one instance in which he admits that he needs to take cues from her. You know that whole cultural narrative about how women are more moral than men? You saw it here first. (Seriously. Back in the seventeenth century, and pretty much for all of recorded Western human history before then, women were considered way, way worse than men.)
Quote #11
People, said I, Mrs. Jewkes, don't know how they shall act, when their Wills are in the Power of their Superiors; and I always thought one should distinguish between Acts of Malice, and of implicit Obedience; tho', at the same time, a Person should know how to judge between Lawful and Unlawful. And even the Great, continued I, tho' at present angry they are not obey'd, will afterwards have no ill Opinion of a Person for withstanding them in their unlawful commands. (93.137)
Here, Pamela buddies up with Mrs. Jewkes, admitting that people might sometimes have a hard time figuring out how to act when they're working for someone else. (200 years later, we started calling this the Nuremberg Defense.) Of course, we get the feeling Pamela herself would never claim she was "just following orders"—but then, she's practically perfect in every way.