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 fections, the latter eemed rather to preponderate.

It was to no Purpoe, therefore, that Thwackum, who was immediately charged by Mr. Blifil with the Story, unbended all his Rancour againt poor Tom. Allworthy gave a patient Hearing to thee Invectives, and then anwered coldly; ‘That young Men of Tom’s Complexion were too generally addicted to this Vice; but he believed That Youth was incerely affected with what he had aid to him on the Occaion, and he hoped he would not trangres 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 uual poor Reource of impotent Revenge.

But Square, who was a les violent, was a much more artful Man; and as he hated Jones more, perhaps, than Thwackum himelf, o he contrived to do him more Michief in the Mind of Mr. Allworthy.

The Reader mut remember the everal little Incidents of the Partridge, the Hore, and the Bible, which were recounted in the econd Book. By all which Jones had ra-