Western is a savage and in chapter 8 of the last book again insists he will imprison Sophia for life on bread and water in a garret if she will not marry according to his choice.
She does not so marry and is by no means condemned to such a fate, a fate that Fielding and his characters seem to think entirely and lawfully in Western's power to effect.
Mull that a while.
Anyway, brilliant, happy, amusing, triumphant, and charming, the conclusion of his masterpiece is very worthy of the whole.
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