The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where I was feated y and the table not being large enough, one fide, and that a very bloody one, was laid on the brick floor. I then ordered Mrs. Hum- phrys to be called in, in order to give her inftrudtions concerning it ; in par¬ ticular, what I would have roafied, and what baked; concluding that fhe would be highly pleafed with the pro- fpedl of fo much money being fpent in her houfe, as fhe might have now rea- fon to expeft, if the wind continued only a few days longer to blow from the fame points whence it had blown for feveral weeks paft, I soon faw good caufe, I mu ft con- fefs, to defpife my own fagacity. Mrs. Humphrys having received her orders, without making any anfwer, fnatched the fide from the floor, which remain¬ ed ftained with blood, and bidding a fervant take up that on the table, left the room with no pleafant countenance, muttering to herfelf, that had fhe known the litter which was to have been