x. — The hospitality of Allworthy; with a short sketch of the characters of two brothers, a doctor and a captain, who were entertained by that gentleman. Chapter xi. — Containing many rules, and some examples, concerning falling in love: descriptions of beauty, and other more prudential inducements to matrimony. Chapter xii. — Containing what the reader may, perhaps, expect to find in it. Chapter xiii. — Which concludes the first book; with an instance of ingratitude, which, we hope, will appear unnatural. BOOK II. — CONTAINING SCENES OF MATRIMONIAL FELICITY IN DIFFERENT DEGREES OF LIFE; AND VARIOUS OTHER TRANSACTIONS DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN CAPTAIN BLIFIL AND MISS BRIDGET ALLWORTHY. Chapter i. — Showing what kind of a history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like. Chapter ii. — Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins. Chapter iii. — The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle. Chapter iv. — Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history. Chapter v. — Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader. Chapter vi. — The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection on the wisdom of our law; with other grave matters, which those will like best who understand Chapter vii. — A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred: with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends. Chapter viii. — A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife, which hath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases. Chapter ix. — A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt, in the lamentations of the widow; with other suitable decorations of death, such as
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