Molly, beſide her preſent unhappy Condition, was differently formed in thoſe Parts, and might, perhaps, have tempted the Envy of Brown to give her a fatal Blow, had not the lucky Arrival of Tom Jones at this Inſtant put an immediate End to the bloody Scene.
This Accident was luckily owing to Mr. Square; for he, Maſter Blifil, and Jones, had mounted their Horſes, after Church, to take the Air, and had ridden about a Quarter of a Mile, when Square, changing his Mind, (not idly, but for a Reaſon which we ſhall unfold as ſoon as we have Leiſure) deſired the young Gentlemen to ride with him another Way than they had at firſt purpoſed. This Motion being complied with, brought them of Neceſſity back again to the Church-yard.
Maſter Blifil, who rode firſt, ſeeing ſuch a Mob aſſembled, and two Women in the Poſture in which we left the Combatants, ſtopt his Horſe to enquire what was the Matter. A Country Fellow, ſcratching his Head, anſwered him; ‘I don’t know Meaſter un’t I; an’t pleaſe your Honour, here hath been a Vight, I think, between‘Goody
