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"It seems he has heard unpleasant rumours about her." "Then why didn't he come and speak to me? She is absolutely blameless: I can answer for it. Her husband is the kind of man Did you ever read Fielding's 'Amelia'? To be sure; well, you understand.
He leaned forward as he spoke from the embrasure of the second window, which was in a line with, and but a few feet apart from, that at which she was sitting. Miss Le Mesurier flushed, and asked, 'How did you hear? 'Both windows are open. Mallinson was leaning out. The girl's confusion increased, and with it Fielding's enjoyment. He repeated, 'So he's doing no work?
Thus Fielding's sensitive care of his reputation in essential matters appears in the fiery denial here given to allegations of publishing anonymous scandals: "I never was, nor will be the Author of anonymous Scandal on the private History or Family of any Person whatever. Indeed there is no Man who speaks or thinks with more detestation of the modern custom of Libelling.
Dot's love for John the Carrier I have read it so often since that I know the whole story by heart Dot's love for John was the real thing, but May Fielding's love for Tackleton wasn't. And it seemed so wonderful when her lover came home and it's foolish, I know very silly that I should have been so moved by just the reading of a story but it's true.
Doubtless faithfully rendered in the old print, here reproduced, of Fielding's blind half-brother, assistant, and successor, Sir John Fielding, hearing a Bow Street case. Middlesex Records. From the hitherto unpublished autograph, now at Woburn Abbey. This hitherto unpublished letter is now in the British Museum.
In the first year of Fielding's management in the Haymarket, Davies was cast for a principal part in George Lillo's tragedy Fatal Curiosity; and it is to his pen that we owe the only known contemporary reference to the active part taken by Fielding himself in the affairs of his theatre.
All we can safely affirm is, that the plays of Fielding's youth did not equal the fictions of his maturity; and that, of those plays, the comedies were less successful than the farces and burlesques.
'I haven't got any money to spare for luxuries of that kind. So far as that goes I believe he is hard up, but then look at the way they live! They'd need to be multi-millionaires to keep it up." The man's speech was crude, even brutal, and the girl on Fielding's other side shivered a little and drew a pace away. It was very evident on which side his sympathies lay.
Lawrence must plainly have been misinformed on the subject, for the pamphlet bears little sign of Fielding's hand. As far as it is intelligible, it is rather against Miss Lucy than for her, and it makes no reference to Lord Bawble's original.
This sorry list, interspersed with cases of murder, of robbery with violence, and of smuggling, may doubtless be extended over the entire five years of Fielding's work on the Bench; and to reiterate the details of such work would be as tedious now as the monotonous discharge of these duties must once have been to the author of Tom Jones.
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