Henry Fielding,
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend…
“ At length the happy day arrived which was to put Joseph in thepossession of all his wishes. He arose, and drest himself in a neat butplain suit of Mr Booby's, which exactly fitted him; for he refused allfinery; as did Fanny likewise, who could be prevailed on by Pamela toattire herself in nothing richer than a white dimity nightgown. ”
Henry Fielding,
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend…
“ As for the Lady Booby, she returned to London in a few days, where ayoung captain of dragoons, together with eternal parties at cards, soonobliterated the memory of Joseph.Joseph remains blest with his Fanny, whom he doats on with the utmosttenderness, which is all returned on her side. The happiness of thiscouple is a perpetual fountain of pleasure to their fond parents ”
Henry Fielding,
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend…
“ Mr Booby hath, with unprecedented generosity, given Fannya fortune of two thousand pounds, which Joseph hath laid out in a littleestate in the same parish with his father, which he now occupies (hisfather having stocked it for him) ; and Fanny presides with mostexcellent management in his dairy; where, however, she is not at presentvery able to bustle much, being, as Mr Wilson informs me in his lastletter, extremely big with her first child.Mr Booby hath presented Mr Adams with a living of one hundred andthirty pounds a year. ”
