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 All this, however, weighed very little with Mr. Allworthy. He could not be prevailed on to ign the Warrant for the Execution of Jones. There was omething within his own Breat with which the invincible Fidelity which that Youth had preerved, correponded much better than it had done with the Religion of Thwackum, or with the Virtue of Square. He therefore trictly ordered the former of thee Gentlemen to abtain from laying violent Hands on Tom for what had pat. The Pedagogue was obliged to obey thoe Orders; but not without great Reluctance, and frequent Mutterings, that the Boy would be certainly poiled.

Towards the Game-keeper the good Man behaved with more Severity. He preently ummoned that poor Fellow before him, and after many bitter Remontrances, paid him his Wages, and dimit him from his Service; for Mr. Allworthy rightly oberved that there was a great Difference between being guilty of a Falehood to excue yourelf, and to excue another. He likewie urged, as the principal Motive to his inflexible Severity againt this Man, that he had baely uffered Tom Jones to undergo o heavy a