fections, the latter ſeemed rather to preponderate.
It was to no Purpoſe, therefore, that Thwackum, who was immediately charged by Mr. Blifil with the Story, unbended all his Rancour againſt poor Tom. Allworthy gave a patient Hearing to theſe Invectives, and then anſwered coldly; ‘That young Men of Tom’s Complexion were too generally addicted to this Vice; but he believed That Youth was ſincerely affected with what he had ſaid to him on the Occaſion, and he hoped he would not tranſgreſs again.’ So that, as the Days of whipping were at an End, the Tutor had no other Vent but his own Mouth for his Gall, the uſual poor Reſource of impotent Revenge.
But Square, who was a leſs violent, was a much more artful Man; and as he hated Jones more, perhaps, than Thwackum himſelf, ſo he contrived to do him more Miſchief in the Mind of Mr. Allworthy.
The Reader muſt remember the ſeveral little Incidents of the Partridge, the Horſe, and the Bible, which were recounted in the ſecond Book. By all which Jones had ra-ther
