if you ſhall have hereafter the Goodneſs to forgive me, I hope I ſhall deſerve it.’
Allworthy heſitated ſome Time, and at laſt ſaid, ‘Well, I will diſcharge my Mittimus.—You may ſend the Conſtable to me.’ He was inſtantly called, diſcharged, and ſo was the Girl.
It will be believed, that Mr. Allworthy failed not to read Tom a very ſevere Lecture on this Occaſion; but it is unneceſſary to inſert it here, as we have faithfully tranſscribed what he ſaid to Jenny Jones in the firſt Book, moſt of which may be applied to the Men, equally with the Women. So ſenſible an Effect had theſe Reproofs on the young Man, who was no hardened Sinner, that he retired to his own Room, where he paſſed the Evening alone in much melancholy Contemplation.
Allworthy was ſufficiently offended by this Tranſgreſſion of Jones; for notwithſtanding the Aſſertions of Mr. Weſtern, it is certain this worthy Man had never indulged himſelf in any looſe Pleaſures with Women, and greatly condemned the Vice of Incontinence in others. Indeed, there is much Reaſon to imagine, that there was not theleaſt
