Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially by a Person of Adams’s Figure, returned the Favour with so much Gratitude, that the Parson’s Nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.

Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially by a Person of Adams’s Figure, returned the Favour with so much Gratitude, that the Parson’s Nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.

– Henry Fielding –

Joseph Andrews

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