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Miscellanies (Volume 3); The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Miscellanies (Volume 3); The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Fielding, Henry

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Historical Fiction

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ISBN10: 0217023061
ISBN13: 9780217023061
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 9.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. VI. Farther Conferences between the Count and Mafter Wild, with o- ther Matters of the Great Ktnd. BEING met the next Morning, the Count, (who, though he did not a- gree with the whole of his Friend's Do- ctrine, was, however, highly pleafed with his Argument) began to bewail the Mif- fortune of his Captivity, and the Backward- nefs of Friends to affift each other in their Neceffities; but what vexed him, he faid, moft, was the Cruelty of the Fair; for he entrufted Wild with the Secret of his having had an Intrigue with Mifs Theodofia, the eldeft of the Mifs Snaps, ever lince his Confinement, but could not prevail with her to fet him at Liberty. Wild anfwered, with a Smile: It was no Wonder a Wo- man mould wifti to confine her Lover, where me might be fure of having him entirely to herfelf; but added, he believ- ed he could tell him a Method of cer- tainly procuring his Efcape. The Count D 3 eagerly eagerly befought him to acquaint him with it. Wild told him: Bribery was the fureft Means, and advifed him to apply to the Maid. The Count thanked him, but returned: That he had not a Far- thing left betides one Guinea, which he had then given her to change. To which Wild faid: He muft make it up . with Promifes, which he fuppofed he was Courtier enough to know how to put off. The Count greatly applauded the Advice, and faid, he hoped he mould be able in Time to perfuade him tocondefcend, to be a Great Man, for which he was ib perfectly well qualified. This Method being concluded on, the two Friends fat down to Cards, a Circum- ftancc which I fhould not have mentioned but for the fake of obferving the prodigious Force of Habit; for, though the Count knew, if he won never fo much of Mr. Wild, he mould not receive a Shilling, yet could h...

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