The History Of The Life Of The Late Mr. Jonathan Wild The Great(Fiscle Part 3) by Henry Fielding (best books to read for young adults txt) 📖
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Friendship And Service To Her Husband, Took His Leave, And
Promised To Visit Her Early In The Morning, And To Conduct Her
Back To Mr. Snap's.
Wild Now Retired To A Night-Cellar, Where He Found Several Of His
Acquaintance, With Whom He Spent The Remaining Part Of The Night
In Revelling; Nor Did The Least Compassion For Heartfree's
Book 2 Chapter 9 Pg 74Misfortunes Disturb The Pleasure Of His Cups. So Truly Great Was
His Soul That It Was Absolutely Composed, Save That An
Apprehension Of Miss Tishy's Making Some Discovery (As She Was
Then In No Good Temper Towards Him) A Little Ruffled And
Disquieted The Perfect Serenity He Would Otherwise Have Enjoyed.
As He Had, Therefore, No Opportunity Of Seeing Her That Evening,
He Wrote Her A Letter Full Of Ten Thousand Protestations Of
Honourable Love, And (Which He More Depended On) Containing As
Many Promises, In Order To Bring The Young Lady Into Good Humour,
Without Acquainting Her In The Least With His Suspicion, Or Giving
Her Any Caution; For It Was His Constant Maxim Never To Put It
Into Any One's Head To Do You A Mischief By Acquainting Him That
It Is In His Power.
We Must Now Return To Mrs. Heartfree, Who Past A Sleepless Night
In As Great Agonies And Horror For The Absence Of Her Husband As A
Fine Well-Bred Woman Would Feel At The Return Of Hers From A Long
Voyage Or Journey. In The Morning The Children Being Brought To
Her, The Eldest Asked Where Dear Papa Was? At Which She Could Not
Refrain From Bursting Into Tears. The Child, Perceiving It, Said,
"Don't Cry, Mamma; I Am Sure Papa Would Not Stay Abroad If He
Could Help It." At These Words She Caught The Child In Her Arms,
And, Throwing Herself Into The Chair In An Agony Of Passion, Cried
Out,
"No, My Child; Nor Shall All The Malice Of Hell Keep Us Long
Asunder."
These Are Circumstances Which We Should Not, For The Amusement Of
Six Or Seven Readers Only, Have Inserted, Had They Not Served To
Shew That There Are Weaknesses In Vulgar Life To Which Great Minds
Are So Entirely Strangers That They Have Not Even An Idea Of Them;
And, Secondly, By Exposing The Folly Of This Low Creature, To Set
Off And Elevate That Greatness Of Which We Endeavour To Draw A
True Portrait In This History.
Wild, Entering The Room, Found The Mother With One Child In Her
Arms, And The Other At Her Knee. After Paying Her His Compliments,
He Desired Her To Dismiss The Children And Servant, For That He
Had Something Of The Greatest Moment To Impart To Her.
She Immediately Complied With His Request, And, The Door Being
Shut, Asked Him With Great Eagerness If He Had Succeeded In His
Intentions Of Procuring The Bail. He Answered He Had Not
Endeavoured At It Yet, For A Scheme Had Entered Into His Head By
Which She Might Certainly Preserve Her Husband, Herself, And Her
Family. In Order To Which He Advised Her Instantly To Remove With
The Most Valuable Jewels She Had To Holland, Before Any Statute Of
Bankruptcy Issued To Prevent Her; That He Would Himself Attend Her
Thither And Place Her In Safety, And Then Return To Deliver Her
Husband, Who Would Be Thus Easily Able To Satisfy His Creditors.
He Added That He Was That Instant Come From Snap's, Where He Had
Communicated The Scheme To Heartfree, Who Had Greatly Approved Of
Book 2 Chapter 9 Pg 75It, And Desired Her To Put It In Execution Without Delay,
Concluding That A Moment Was Not To Be Lost.
The Mention Of Her Husband's Approbation Left No Doubt In This
Poor Woman's Breast; She Only Desired A Moment's Time To Pay Him A
Visit In Order To Take Her Leave. But Wild Peremptorily Refused;
He Said By Every Moment's Delay She Risqued The Ruin Of Her
Family; That She Would Be Absent Only A Few Days From Him, For
That The Moment He Had Lodged Her Safe In Holland, He Would
Return, Procure Her Husband His Liberty, And Bring Him To Her. I
Have Been The Unfortunate, The Innocent Cause Of All My Dear Tom's
Calamity, Madam, Said He, And I Will Perish With Him Or See Him
Out Of It. Mrs. Heartfree Overflowed With Acknowledgments Of His
Goodness, But Still Begged For The Shortest Interview With Her
Husband. Wild Declared That A Minute's Delay Might Be Fatal; And
Added, Though With The Voice Of Sorrow Rather Than Of Anger, That
If She Had Not Resolution Enough To Execute The Commands He
Brought Her From Her Husband, His Ruin Would Lie At Her Door; And,
For His Own Part, He Must Give Up Any Farther Meddling In His
Affairs.
She Then Proposed To Take Her Children With Her; But Wild Would
Not Permit It, Saying They Would Only Retard Their Flight, And
That It Would Be Properer For Her Husband To Bring Them. He At
Length Absolutely Prevailed On This Poor Woman, Who Immediately
Packed Up The Most Valuable Effects She Could Find, And, After
Taking A Tender Leave Of Her Infants, Earnestly Recommended Them
To The Care Of A Very Faithful Servant. Then They Called A
Hackney-Coach, Which Conveyed Them To An Inn, Where They Were
Furnished With A Chariot And Six, In Which They Set Forward For
Harwich.
Wild Rode With An Exulting Heart, Secure, As He Now Thought
Himself, Of The Possession Of That Lovely Woman, Together With A
Rich Cargo. In Short, Be Enjoyed In His Mind All The Happiness
Which Unbridled Lust And Rapacious Avarice, Could Promise Him. As
To The Poor Creature Who Was To Satisfy These Passions, Her Whole
Soul Was Employed In Reflecting On The Condition Of Her Husband
And Children. A Single Word Scarce Escaped Her Lips, Though Many A
Tear Gushed From Her Brilliant Eyes, Which, If I May Use A Coarse
Expression, Served Only As Delicious Sauce To Heighten The
Appetite Of Wild.
Book 2 Chapter 10 Pg 76Sea-Adventures Very New And Surprising.
When They Arrived At Harwich They Found A Vessel, Which Had Put In
There, Just Ready To Depart For Rotterdam. So They Went
Immediately On Board, And Sailed With A Fair Wind; But They Had
Hardly Proceeded Out Of Sight Of Land When A Sudden And Violent
Storm Arose And Drove Them To The Southwest; Insomuch That The
Captain Apprehended It Impossible To Avoid The Goodwin Sands, And
He And All His Crew Gave Themselves Up For Lost. Mrs. Heartfree,
Who Had No Other Apprehensions From Death But Those Of Leaving Her
Dear Husband And Children, Fell On Her Knees To Beseech The
Almighty's Favour, When Wild, With A Contempt Of Danger Truly
Great, Took A Resolution As Worthy To Be Admired Perhaps As Any
Recorded Of The Bravest Hero, Ancient Or Modern; A Resolution
Which Plainly Proved Him To Have These Two Qualifications So
Necessary To A Hero, To Be Superior To All The Energies Of Fear Or
Pity. He Saw The Tyrant Death Ready To Rescue From Him His
Intended Prey, Which He Had Yet Devoured Only In Imagination. He
Therefore Swore He Would Prevent Him, And Immediately Attacked The
Poor Wretch, Who Was In The Utmost Agonies Of Despair, First With
Solicitation, And Afterwards With Force.
Mrs. Heartfree, The Moment She Understood His Meaning, Which, In
Her Present Temper Of Mind, And In The Opinion She Held Of Him,
She Did Not Immediately, Rejected Him With All The Repulses Which
Indignation And Horror Could Animate: But When He Attempted
Violence She Filled The Cabin With Her Shrieks, Which Were So
Vehement That They Reached The Ears Of The Captain, The Storm At
This Time Luckily Abating. This Man, Who Was A Brute Rather From
His Education And The Element He Inhabited Than From Nature, Ran
Hastily Down To Her Assistance, And, Finding Her Struggling On The
Ground With Our Hero, He Presently Rescued Her From Her Intended
Ravisher, Who Was Soon Obliged To Quit The Woman, In Order To
Engage With Her Lusty Champion, Who Spared Neither Pains Nor Blows
In The Assistance Of His Fair Passenger.
When The Short Battle Was Over, In Which Our Hero, Had He Not Been
Overpowered With Numbers, Who Came Down On Their Captain's Side,
Would Have Been Victorious, The Captain Rapped Out A Hearty Oath,
And Asked Wild, If He Had No More Christianity In Him Than To
Ravish A Woman In A Storm? To Which The Other Greatly And Sullenly
Answered, "It Was Very Well; But D--N Him If He Had Not
Satisfaction The Moment They Came On Shore." The Captain With
Great Scorn Replied, "Kiss,---" &C., And Then, Forcing Wild Out
Of The Cabbin, He, At Mrs. Heartfree's Request, Locked Her Into
It, And Returned To The Care Of His Ship.
The Storm Was Now Entirely Ceased, And Nothing Remained But The
Usual Ruffling Of The Sea After It, When One Of The Sailors Spied
Book 2 Chapter 10 Pg 77A Sail At A Distance, Which The Captain Wisely Apprehended Might
Be A Privateer (For We Were Then Engaged In A War With France),
And Immediately Ordered All The Sail Possible To Be Crowded; But
His Caution Was In Vain, For The Little Wind Which Then Blew Was
Directly Adverse, So That The Ship Bore Down Upon Them, And Soon
Appeared To Be What The Captain Had Feared, A French Privateer. He
Was In No Condition Of Resistance, And Immediately Struck On Her
Firing The First Gun. The Captain Of The Frenchman, With Several
Of His Hands, Came On Board The English Vessel, Which They Rifled
Of Everything Valuable, And, Amongst The Rest, Of Poor Mrs.
Heartfree's Whole Cargo; And Then Taking The Crew, Together With
The Two Passengers, Aboard His Own Ship, He
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