FANNY Fanny was now in the nineteenth year of her age; she was tall and delicately shaped;

but not one of those slender young women who seem rather intended to hang up in the hall of an anatomist than for any other purpose. On the contrary, she was so plump that she seemed bursting through her tight stays, especially in the part which confined her swelling breasts. Nor did her hips want the assistance of a hoop to extend them. The exact shape of her arms denoted the form of those limbs which she concealed; and though they were a little reddened by her labour, yet, if her slee e slipped abo e her elbow, or her hand!erchief disco ered any part of her nec!, a whiteness appeared which the finest "talian paint would be unable to reach. #er hair was of a chesnut brown, and nature had been extremely la ish to her of it, which she had cut, and on $undays used to curl down her nec!, in the modern fashion. #er forehead was high, her eyebrows arched, and rather full than otherwise. #er eyes blac! and spar!ling; her nose %ust inclining to the &oman; her lips red and moist, and her underlip, according to the opinion of the ladies, too pouting. #er teeth were white, but not exactly e en. The small'pox had left one only mar! on her chin, which was so large, it might ha e been mista!en for a dimple, had not her left chee! produced one so near a neighbour to it, that the former ser ed only for a foil to the latter. #er complexion was fair, a little in%ured by the sun, but o erspread with such a bloom that the finest ladies would ha e exchanged all their white for it( add to these a countenance in which, though she was extremely bashful, a sensibility appeared almost incredible; and a sweetness, whene er she smiled, beyond either imitation or description. To conclude all, she had a natural gentility, superior to the ac)uisition of art, and which surpri*ed all who beheld her.

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,r +oseph Andrews was now in the one'and'twentieth year of his age. #e was of the highest degree of middle stature; his limbs-maini. were put together with great elegance, and no less strength; his legs and thighs-coapse,pulpe. were formed in the exactest proportion; his shoulders were broad and brawny, but yet his arm hung so easily, that he had all the symptoms of strength without the least clumsiness-neindemanare.. #is hair was of a nut'brown colour, and was displayed in wanton ringlets-bucle. down his bac!; his forehead was high, his eyes dar!, and as full of sweetness as of fire; his nose a little inclined to the &oman; his teeth white and e en; his lips full, red, and soft; his beard was only rough on his chin and upper lip; but his chee!s, in which his

blood glowed, were o erspread with a thic! down; his countenance-infatisare. had a tenderness %oined with a sensibility inexpressible. Add to this the most perfect neatness in his dress, and an air which, to those who ha e not seen many noblemen, would gi e an idea of nobility.

,& A/&A#A, A0A,$ was an excellent scholar. #e was a perfect

master of the 1ree! and 2atin languages; to which he added a great share of !nowledge in the Oriental tongues; and could read and translate French, "talian, and $panish. #e had applied many years to the most se ere study, and had treasured up a fund of learning rarely to be met with in a uni ersity. #e was, besides, a man of good sense, good parts, and good nature; but was at the same time as entirely ignorant of the ways of this world as an infant %ust entered into it could possibly be. As he had ne er any intention to decei e, so he ne er suspected such a design in others. #e was generous, friendly, and bra e to an excess; but simplicity was his characteristic!( he did, no more than ,r 3olley 3ibber, apprehend any such passions as malice and en y to exist in man!ind; which was indeed less remar!able in a country parson than in a gentleman who hath passed his life behind the scenes,4a place which hath been seldom thought the school of innocence, and where a ery little obser ation would ha e con inced the great apologist that those passions ha e a real existence in the human mind. #is irtue, and his other )ualifications, as they rendered him e)ual to his office, so they made him an agreeable and aluable companion, and had so much endeared and well recommended him to a bishop, that at the age of fifty he was pro ided with a handsome income of twenty'three pounds a year; which, howe er, he could not ma!e any great figure with, because he li ed in a dear country, and was a little encumbered with a wife and six children. "t was this gentleman, who ha ing, as " ha e said, obser ed the singular de otion of young Andrews, had found means to )uestion him concerning se eral particulars; as, how many boo!s there were in the New Testament5 which were they5 how many chapters they contained5 and such li!e( to all which, ,r Adams pri ately said, he answered much better than $ir Thomas, or two other neighbouring %ustices of the peace could probably ha e done. ,r Adams was wonderfully solicitous to !now at what time,