The Writings of Henry Fielding, Comprising His Celebrated Works of Fiction, with a Memoir by D. Herbert

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... tho people in the house, that she is not gone this way. How much better, therefore, would it be to stay till the morning, when we may expect to meet with somebody to inquire of!' This last argument had indeed some effect on Jones; aud while ho was weighing it, the landlord threw all the rhetoric of which ho was master into the same scale. 'Sun:, sir,' said he, 'your servant gives you most excellent advice; for who would travel by night at this time of the year?' He then began in the usual style to trumpet forth the excellent accommodation which his house afforded; and my landlady likewise opened on the occasion. But, not to detain tho reador with what is common to every host aud hostess, it is sufficient to tell him Jones was at last prevailed on to stay and refresh himself with a few hours' rest, which indeed he very much wanted; for he had hardly shut his eyes since ho had left the inn where the accident of the broken head had happened. As soon as Jones had taken a resolution to proceed no farther that night, ho preseutly retired to rest, with his two bedfellows, the pocketbook and the muff; but Partridge, who at several times had refreshed himself with several naps, was more inclined to eating than to sleeping, and more to drinking than to either. And now the storm which Grace had raised being at an end, and my laudlady being again reconciled to the puppet-man, who on his side forgave the indecent reflections which tho good woman in her passion had cast on his performances, a face of perfect peace and tranquillity reigned in the kitchen; whero sat assembled round the fire the landlord and laudlady of tho house, the master of the puppet-show, the attorney's clerk, the exciseman, and tho ingenious Mr. Partridge; in which company passed the agreeable conve...