‘Your Worſhip is pleaſed to be jocular,’ anſwered the Parſon, ‘but I do not only animadvert on the Sinfulneſs of the Action, thought that ſurely is to be greatly deprecated; but I fear his Unrighteouſneſs may injure him with Mr. Allworthy. And truly I muſt ſay, though he hath the Character of being a little wild, I never ſaw any Harm in the young Man; nor can I ſay I have heard any, ſave what your Worſhip now mentions. I wiſh, indeed he was a little more regular in his Reſponſes at Church; but altogether he ſeems
‘Ingenui vultus puer ingenuiq; pudoris.
‘That is a claſſical Line, young Lady, and being rendered into Engliſh, is, A Lad of an ingenuous Countenance and of an ingenuous Modeſty: For this was a Virtue in great Repute both among the Latins and Greeks. I muſt ſay the young Gentleman (for ſo I think I may call him, notwithſtanding his Birth) appears to me a very modeſt, civil Lad, and I ſhould be ſorry that he ſhould do himſelf any Injury in Squire Allworthy’s Opinion.’
‘Poogh!’ ſays the Squire, ‘Injury with Allworthy! Why Allworthy loves a‘Wench
