The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . But their ladys commands would have prevailed, hadnot Mr. Colbrand, who, it seems, had been orderd by , when she saw how I was treated, to be within call,come up, and put on one of his deadly fierce looks, — the onlytime, I thought, it ever became him, — and said, He wouldchine the man (that was his word) who offerd to touch hislady; and so he ran alongside of me; and I heard my
The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . But their ladys commands would have prevailed, hadnot Mr. Colbrand, who, it seems, had been orderd by , when she saw how I was treated, to be within call,come up, and put on one of his deadly fierce looks, — the onlytime, I thought, it ever became him, — and said, He wouldchine the man (that was his word) who offerd to touch hislady; and so he ran alongside of me; and I heard my ladysay, The creature flies like a bird. Indeed, Mr. Colbrand,with his huge strides, could hardly keep pace with me. I neverstoppd till I got to the chariot. Robert had got down fromhis seat, seeing me running at a distance, and held the door inhis hand, with the step ready down ; and in I jumpd, withouttouching the step, saying, Drive me, drive me, as fast asyou can, out of my ladys reach! He mounted his seat, andColbrand said, Dont be frightend, madam; nobody shallhurt you. He shut the door, and away Robert drove ; but Iwas quite out of breath, and did not recover it, and my fright,all the HENRY FIELDING JOKES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3971 THE GENIAL JOKES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CEN-TURY. By henry fielding. (From Joseph Andrews.) [Henry Fielding, English novelist, was bora at Sharphain Park, Sorncrsetrshire, April 22, 1707, son of Edmund Fielding, afterwards lieutenant generalunder the Duke of Marlborough. He was sent to Eton and Leyden, and on hisreturn from the Continent wrote a number of and farces, amongthem being The Modern Husband, The Wedding Day, etc. In hemarried Miss Charlotte Craddock, of Salisbury, and settled down as a countrygentleman, but, having speedily exhausted his wifes money and his own, he re-sumed dramatic work ; studied for the bar ; and for immediate subsistence em-ployed his pen on various subjects. He made his d^but as a novel
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