Chapter vi — In which Mrs Miller pays a
visit to Sophia.
Chapter vii — A pathetic scene between
Mr Allworthy and Mrs Miller.
Chapter viii — Containing various matters.
Chapter ix — What happened to Mr Jones
in the prison.
Chapter i — A farewel to the reader.
Chapter ii — Containing a very tragical
incident.
Chapter iii — Allworthy visits old Nightingale;
with a strange discovery that he made on that occasion.
Chapter iv — Containing two letters in
very different stiles.
Chapter v — In which the history is continued.
Chapter vi — In which the history is farther
continued.
Chapter vii — Continuation of the history.
Chapter viii — Further continuation.
Chapter ix — A further continuation.
Chapter x — Wherein the history begins
to draw towards a conclusion.
Chapter xi — The history draws nearer to
a conclusion.
Chapter xii — Approaching still nearer
to the end.
Chapter the last — In which the history
is concluded.
George Lyttleton, ESQ;
One of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
Sir,
Notwithstanding your constant refusal, when I have
asked leave to prefix your name to this dedication,
I must still insist on my right to desire your protection
of this work.
To you, Sir, it is owing that this history was ever
begun. It was by your desire that I first thought
of such a composition. So many years have since
past, that you may have, perhaps, forgotten this circumstance:
but your desires are to me in the nature of commands;
and the impression of them is never to be erased from
my memory.
Again, Sir, without your assistance this history had
never been completed. Be not startled at the
assertion. I do not intend to draw on you the
suspicion of being a romance writer. I mean no
more than that I partly owe to you my existence during
great part of the time which I have employed in composing
it: another matter which it may be necessary
to remind you of; since there are certain actions of
which you are apt to be extremely forgetful; but of
these I hope I shall always have a better memory than
yourself.
Lastly, It is owing to you that the history appears
what it now is. If there be in this work, as
some have been pleased to say, a stronger picture
of a truly benevolent mind than is to be found in any
other, who that knows you, and a particular acquaintance
of yours, will doubt whence that benevolence hath
been copied? The world will not, I believe, make
me the compliment of thinking I took it from myself.
I care not: this they shall own, that the two
persons from whom I have taken it, that is to say,
