The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams: Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Such was the perfon who now ap eared before the lady. She, viewed him fome time in filence, and twice or thrice before {he fpake, changed her mind as to the manner in which {he thould begin. At length the faid to him Joleph, I am forry to hear fuch complaints againft you; I am told you behave fo rudely to the maids, that they cannot do their bufmefs 1n quiet; I mean, thofe who are not wicked enough to hearken to your folicitations. As to others, they may, perhaps, not call you rude: for there are wicked fluts who make one afhamed of one's own fex; and are as ready to admit any naufeous familiarity as fellows to offer it; nay, there are fuch in my family; but they {hall not (lay in it. That impudent trollop, who is with child by you, 15 difcha1ged by this time. As a perfon who is {truck through the heart with a thunderbolt, looks extremely furprifed; nay, and perhaps is fo too! Thus the poor ]ofeph received the falle accufation of his miltrefs: he blufhed and looked confounded; which {he milinterpreted to be fymptoms of his guilt, and thus went on.

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