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"Honourable!" answered Jones; "no breath ever yet durst sully herreputation. The sweetest air is not purer, the limpid stream notclearer, than her honour. She is all over, both in mind and body,consummate perfection. She is the most beautiful creature in theuniverse: and yet she is mistress of such noble elevated qualities,that, though she is never from my thoughts, I scarce ever think of herbeauty but when I see it."--"And can you, my good friend," criesNightingale, "with such an engagement as this upon your hands,hesitate a moment about quitting such a--" "Hold," said Jones, "nomore abuse of her: I detest the thought of ingratitude." "Pooh!"answered the other, "you are not the first upon whom she hathconferred obligations of this kind. She is remarkably liberal whereshe likes; though, let me tell you, her favours are so prudentlybestowed, that they should rather raise a man's vanity than hisgratitude." In short, Nightingale proceeded so far on this head, andtold his friend so many stories of the lady, which he swore to thetruth of, that he entirely removed all esteem for her from the breastof Jones; and his gratitude was lessened in proportion. Indeed, hebegan to look on all the favours he had received rather as wages thanbenefits, which depreciated not only her, but himself too in his ownconceit, and put him quite out of humour with both. From this disgust,his mind, by a natural transition, turned towards Sophia; her virtue,her purity, her love to him, her sufferings on his account, filled allhis thoughts, and made his commerce with Lady Bellaston appear stillmore odious. The result of all was, that, though his turning himselfout of her service, in which light he now saw his affair with her,would be the loss of his bread; yet he determined to quit her, if hecould but find a handsome pretence: which being communicated to hisfriend, Nightingale considered a little, and then said, "I have it, myboy! I have found out a sure method; propose marriage to her, and Iwould venture hanging upon the success." "Marriage?" cries Jones. "Ay,propose marriage," answered Nightingale, "and she will declare off ina moment. I knew a young fellow whom she kept formerly, who made theoffer to her in earnest, and was presently turned off for his pains."Jones declared he could not venture the experiment. "Perhaps," saidhe, "she may be less shocked at this proposal from one man than fromanother. And if she should take me at my word, where am I then?caught, in my own trap, and undone for ever." "No;" answeredNightingale, "not if I can give you an expedient by which you may atany time get out of the trap."----"What expedient can that be?"replied Jones. "This," answered Nightingale. "The young fellow Imentioned, who is one of the most intimate acquaintances I have in theworld, is so angry with her for some ill offices she hath since donehim, that I am sure he would, without any difficulty, give you a sightof her letters; upon which you may decently break with her; anddeclare off before the knot is tyed, if she should really be willingto tie it, which I am convinced she will not."After some hesitation, Jones, upon the strength of this assurance,consented; but, as he swore he wanted the confidence to propose thematter to her face, he wrote the following letter, which Nightingaledictated:--"MADAM,"I am extremely concerned, that, by an unfortunate engagementabroad, I should have missed receiving the honour of your ladyship'scommands the moment they came; and the delay which I must now sufferof vindicating myself to your ladyship greatly adds to this
misfortune. O, Lady Bellaston! what a terror have I been in for fearyour reputation should be exposed by these perverse accidents! Thereis one only way to secure it. I need not name what that is. Onlypermit me to say, that as your honour is as dear to me as my own, somy sole ambition is to have the glory of laying my liberty at yourfeet; and believe me when I assure you, I can never be madecompletely happy without you generously bestow on me a legal rightof calling you mine for ever.--I am,madam,with most profound respect,your ladyship's most obliged,obedient, humble servant,THOMAS JONES."To this she presently returned the following answer:"SIR,"When I read over your serious epistle, I could, from its coldnessand formality, have sworn that you already had the legal right youmention; nay, that we had for many years composed that monstrousanimal a husband and wife. Do you really then imagine me a fool? ordo you fancy yourself capable of so entirely persuading me out of mysenses, that I should deliver my whole fortune into your power, inorder to enable you to support your pleasures at my expense? Arethese the proofs of love which I expected? Is this the return for--?but I scorn to upbraid you, and am in great admiration of yourprofound respect."P.S. I am prevented from revising:----Perhaps I have said more thanI meant.----Come to me at eight this evening."Jones, by the advice of his privy-council, replied:"MADAM,"It is impossible to express how much I am shocked at the suspicionyou entertain of me. Can Lady Bellaston have conferred favours on aman whom she could believe capable of so base a design? or can shetreat the most solemn tie of love with contempt? Can you imagine,madam, that if the violence of my passion, in an unguarded moment,overcame the tenderness which I have for your honour, I would thinkof indulging myself in the continuance of an intercourse which couldnot possibly escape long the notice of the world; and which, whendiscovered, must prove so fatal to your reputation? If such be youropinion of me, I must pray for a sudden opportunity of returningthose pecuniary obligations, which I have been so unfortunate toreceive at your hands; and for those of a more tender kind, I shallever remain, &c." And so concluded in the very words with which hehad concluded the former letter.The lady answered as follows:"I see you are a villain! and I despise you from my soul. If youcome here I shall not be at home."Though Jones was well satisfied with his deliverance from a thraldomwhich those who have ever experienced it will, I apprehend, allow tobe none of the lightest, he was not, however, perfectly easy in his
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BOOK VI -- CONTAINING ABOUT THREE W
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Chapter i -- An essay to prove that
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Chapter vii -- Continuation of the
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virtue, nothing inconsistent with t
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this dish is too common and vulgar;
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Chapter iii.An odd accident which b
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Allworthy here betook himself to th
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scarecrows.The next step was to exa
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On her arrival in this place, she w
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to her as follows: "You know, child
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is an instance of your opinion of m
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must own I cannot help admiring the
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The hospitality of Allworthy; with
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It seemed, therefore, not unlikely
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To deal plainly with the reader, th
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in immense wealth. I might, perhaps
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unaccountable ingratitude in the ca
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Which nation rise the glorious lord
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Chapter iii.The description of a do
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To make a life of jealousyAnd follo
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parish in England.Mrs Partridge bei
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Containing much matter to exercise
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"But though," continued he, "there
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confirmation of the schoolmaster's
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things, been the occasion of depriv
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topic of conversation between them.
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prevented him from discovering to t
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dissuaded her from indulging; attem
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company; being altered only from wh
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Chapter ii.The heroe of this great
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him, denounced great vengeance, swe
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profest Platonist, and in religion
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Indeed, I doubt not but this ridicu
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something which at first sight appe
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epresented in parliament.Thwackum,
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correcting the ladies in Bridewell.
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I ask pardon for this short appeara
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of in the same manner. This Bible M
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sportsmen.The higgler to whom the h
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must overpower every reader; for no
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Yet is it possible, my friend, that
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However, as persons who suspect the
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"Drink about," says Western. "Pox o
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a truly benevolent disposition, men
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Sophia, as soon as she could speak
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integrity which nothing can corrupt
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former of these created gratitude,
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up to Molly than they pelted her wi
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then flying at the mob, who were al
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often essayed, and which the word v
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Ay, ay, as sure as two-pence, Tom i
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acts are daily committed by magistr
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in the tenderest part, by giving a
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we have so profound a respect, will
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overjoyed to find her unhurt, cried
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as soon as it was over, and asked b
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warning; but if you have a desire t
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eye of a man who had never seen one
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from one so abandoned in his youth,
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pure and firm than his, might have
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ut this was perfectly indiscriminat
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perplexed the mind of the worthy yo
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London, who are not suffering but d
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expose thee? I promise thee, I was
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ecame not only melancholy when alon
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saying? Pardon me if I have said to
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protracted of such enjoyments! how
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Besides grief for her master, there
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It was now debated whether Mr Allwo
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many bumpers to the doctor's health
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though there is much of dignity and
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the reason of them. To which Blifil
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Our heroe received the enemy's atta
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This tragical scene was now convert
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Of love.In our last book we have be
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Chapter ii.The character of Mrs Wes
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other; and it signifies nothing wha
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her manner. Secondly, she addressed
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of pleasure. I answer, They were no
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the good lady could not forbear ask
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ecollected herself, said, "That on
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me go and see, only for a fancy, wh
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Mr Western took care to way-lay the
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like me. Do not unkindly withhold t
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few minutes began to recover, and a
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varden. I always thought what would
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Thwackum was now sent for, and pres
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clothes and everything else should
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promised to do. And indeed I believ
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much at my last prayers as to suffe
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our corn, and left us nothing but t
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well convinced, with their usual vo
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wrath of her father, and to what pu
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e, my brother is resolved; nay, sin
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was silly, which is generally under
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ingratitude as well as impiety to t
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These matters were resolved on, whe
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mattered not how wicked were the me
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e sure, his ghost hath walked there
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sacrificing Sophia and all her secr
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Chapter ix.The wise demeanour of Mr
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Instances of this behaviour in pare
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Though Jones was very unfit for any
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through it.Chapter xi.The adventure
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dexterity, so well ingratiated hims
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And there's Corderius, another d--n
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Such an ascendant had our lieutenan
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"Indeed, madam," said the lieutenan
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soreness on that side of his head."
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Jones was in a very dangerous condi
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which he entered, and where the cen
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contrive the quomodo, which appeare
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BOOK VIII.CONTAINING ABOUT TWO DAYS
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story of the ghost of George Villie
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error here hinted at; their heroes
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to the contrary, for she hath menti
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always to let one another know such
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est-natured gentlemen in the univer
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was extremely open-hearted, very re
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came you not to inform me of this l
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Chapter vii.Containing better reaso
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might have been expected, from the
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and once, when Squire Allworthy was
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told Partridge the story from the S
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efore, Partridge was in truth a Jac
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travellers who had lost their way,
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cried out, "You will pardon me, you
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in the next chapter.Chapter xi.In w
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necessary for preparing for my appr
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"Here I first began seriously to re
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"I had now regained my liberty," sa
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pocket. To say the truth, I doubted
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and for two years I continued of th
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against the capricious invasions of
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friend Mr Watson! Here I will not t
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"Events of this nature in the publi
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and ungenerous. I could not look on
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of detestation and scorn."As for my
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"Alas! young man," answered the str
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pens, and ink, with the manual capa
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plainness, honesty, and sincerity;
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direct them; indeed, he wondered at
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is universally believed in those co
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Jones, his female companion, and Pa
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I am heartily sorry your ladyship h
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entirely satisfied that appetite wh
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"This smile our heroe received full
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was publickly known that there was
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serjeant said, there were some doub
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to lay on his conscience.And here,
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Chapter ii.Containing the arrival o
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of her?"Fitzpatrick, now perceiving
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etter supper ordered this half-year
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little sack whey, made very small a
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saying, "Good woman, I must insist
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"but _non omnia possumus omnes_. On
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perfectly easy, continued her journ
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pleased with returning to his frien
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looks of Mr Western; who no sooner
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charming Sophia.Early in the mornin
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from the too inordinate fondness of
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Sophia, finding all her persuasions
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hatred to Blifil, her compassion, a
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the means by which they are effecte
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The adventures which Sophia met wit
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ye-standers. This made her suspect
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eheaded." "Pooh!" answered the husb
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"It is natural to the unhappy to fe
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strongly verified by my aunt, that,
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money. Pray, sir, take a fool's adv
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drinking consumed so much of his ti
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dreadful catastrophe, lies fast asl
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"At length my friend was removed fr
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come, with all the embellishments w
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plaice sound and firm, the flounder
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commemorated, had seen the attendan
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master; it being the nature of guts
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offspring of wealth and dulness. On
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choose to be her guardian as a pers
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Now, to obviate all such imputation
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What are we to understand by this?
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Sophia is flown? Cruel Sophia! Crue
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not I; as to matter of that. I know
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who more than once shook his head,
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e able to engage this whole army yo
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a situation not very proper to be d
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willingly be thought the attendant
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"Pogh!" cries the clerk, with great
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the lady of her fine riding-habit,
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almost everything which had happene
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for Jones, notwithstanding his hurr
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Jones, as the reader knows, was yet
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cloaths, and other refreshments, to
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will be in; to be sure it is always
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"Me have honour, as me say, to be d
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[*] Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, and the
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While this was preparing, Partridge
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shoulder of mutton, that at this in
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Our travellers having remounted the
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all between thy Allen and thy Lyttl
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not take an answer."I have often th
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here put an end to this chapter.Cha
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Upon my word, madam," says she, "it
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The next morning, as early as it wa
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whole theory and practice of that t
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This compliment was so apparently d
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To confess the truth, Mr Jones was
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talk any longer with that trollop,
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into my doors at this time of night
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with her tears, beg her to be comfo
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despair of rendering agreeable to t
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The hurry of spirits into which thi
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as he knew Mrs Miller to be extreme
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duty to her father forbid her to fo
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satisfaction, and no less to that o
Page 438 and 439: practice of deceit; upon which, whe
Page 440 and 441: who are, indeed, so entirely made u
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Page 444 and 445: This letter administered the same k
Page 446 and 447: told you a confounded lie: and I be
Page 448 and 449: "I heartily wish you had," cries Jo
Page 450 and 451: person to wait on you, and to pay y
Page 452 and 453: utality, commonly called jests, on
Page 454 and 455: to Jones, and began to renew her ap
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Page 458 and 459: sometimes of those of the public. H
Page 460 and 461: While the father stood like one str
Page 462 and 463: without any ceremony into the compa
Page 464 and 465: A short chapter, which concludes th
Page 466 and 467: immortality.But as the reader's cur
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Page 470 and 471: a Somersetshire lad just came to to
Page 472 and 473: must send to Lady Edgely for one of
Page 474 and 475: live, nor will I live without you."
Page 476 and 477: "Pugh!" said the squire, "what sign
Page 478 and 479: I have little reason to hope it wil
Page 480 and 481: indeed, brother, you are not a fit
Page 482 and 483: stop till Partridge came running in
Page 484 and 485: on such occasions, calmly replied:
Page 486 and 487: her family brought to a happy concl
Page 490 and 491: mind. There was in this scheme too
Page 492 and 493: not determine. But that it might be
Page 494 and 495: Bellaston, not above five guineas r
Page 496 and 497: friend, and wished Mr Blifil at the
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Page 500 and 501: satisfaction. His lordship would ha
Page 502 and 503: a poor bastardly vagabond." "If it
Page 504 and 505: passage into the fowl.Sophia, notwi
Page 506 and 507: the other, that I question whether
Page 508 and 509: long, unintelligible story about hi
Page 510 and 511: Miller, and her younger daughter, i
Page 512 and 513: man, on any account.--He seemed fri
Page 514 and 515: a young lady was even an act of cha
Page 516 and 517: e in a better humour in the afterno
Page 518 and 519: masterpiece of assurance. With your
Page 520 and 521: they are not punishable by law. I h
Page 522 and 523: after set forward to London.The rea
Page 524 and 525: have pitied him. But, bad as it is,
Page 526 and 527: called him fellow.--Indeed, my best
Page 528 and 529: astard of somebody's, I don't know
Page 530 and 531: if they could avoid this, good heav
Page 532 and 533: The reader may pretty well guess Bl
Page 534 and 535: dishonourable design; it is impossi
Page 536 and 537: have heard more than you know. Matt
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paleness; but she now waxed redder,
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friendship to this man to a blameab
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a most cruel persecution: nay, it i
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warmly protesting against his lords
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not shock you; but you know, I beli
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ignorant, as the adventure of the m
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"I hope, sir," said Partridge, "you
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My Sophia! how dares such a wretch
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The reader may suppose Mrs Miller r
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"I have somewhere read, that the gr
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epent, as in the case of those who
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entirely free. I know I have been g
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yet there is one above who knows th
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with you; and it is such as I can i
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orn, in the presence only of myself
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squire, "take a fool's advice; neve
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was not proper you should appear in
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desired to know when he would be pl
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he should not behave well to such a
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my cousin my Lady Bellaston's. He h
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so miserable to have incurred her d
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vagabond into the sea-service, when
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deprived of any means or time for r
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extremely beautiful, that even Allw
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you.--Yet permit me at least once m
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daughter and her husband were, than
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emains of her fortune. She lives in
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