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The English Novel

CHAPTER III
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It is not that Pamela and her meyney are _un_real; for they are not: but that they are not personal.

The Reverend Abraham Adams is a good deal more real than half the parsons who preached last Sunday, and a good deal more personal: and the quality is not confined to him, though he has most of it.

So, too, with the description.

The time was not yet for any minute or elaborate picture-setting.

But here again also that extra dose of life and action--almost of bustle--which Fielding knows how to instil is present.


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