Chapter xiii

-- A dreadful accident which befel Sophia. The gallant

behaviour of Jones, and the more dreadful consequence of that behaviour to the young lady; with a short digression in favour of the female sex.

## Chapter xiv -- The arrival of a surgeon.--His operations, and a long

dialogue between Sophia and her maid.

## BOOK V -- CONTAINING A PORTION OF TIME SOMEWHAT LONGER THAN HALF A

YEAR.

## Chapter i -- Of the SERIOUS in writing, and for what purpose it is

introduced.

## Chapter ii -- In which Mr Jones receives many friendly visits during

his confinement; with some fine touches of the passion of love, scarce visible to the naked eye.

## Chapter iii -- Which all who have no heart will think to contain much

ado about nothing.

## Chapter iv -- A little chapter, in which is contained a little

incident.

## Chapter v -- A very long chapter, containing a very great incident.

## Chapter vi -- By comparing which with the former, the reader may

possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love.

## Chapter vii -- In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed.

## Chapter viii -- Containing matter rather natural than pleasing.

## Chapter ix -- Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on

that saying of Aeschines, that “drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person.”

## Chapter x -- Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of

other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency.

## Chapter xi -- In which a simile in Mr Pope's period of a mile

introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron.

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