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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    been made, fhe would not have taken fuch pains to wafh her houfe that, morn¬ ing. c If this was gentility, much * good may it do fuch gentlefolks, for c her part fhe had no notion of it!’ From thefe murmurs I received twro hints. The one, that it was not from a mifiake of our inclination that the good woman had ftarved us, but from wifely confulting her own dignity, or rather, perhaps, her vanity, to which our hunger was offered up as a facrifice. The other, that I was now fitting in a damp room ; a circumfiance, which, tho’ it had hitherto efcaped my notice, from the colour of the bricks, was by no means to be neglected in a valetudi¬ nary ftate. My wife, who, befides difcharging excellently well her own, and all the tender offices becoming the female character ; who befides being a faith¬ ful friend, an amiable companion, and a tender nurfe, could likewife fupply