Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Chapter

Chapters 47–50 (Volume III, 5–8)

expeditiously done with or characterized by expedition, or efficiency; prompt.

profligate immoral and shameless; dissolute.

paddock a small field or enclosure near a stable, in which horses are exercised.

capers playful jumps or leaps.

frisks lively, playful movements; frolics; gambols.

sanguine cheerful and confident; optimistic; hopeful.

invectives a violent verbal attack; strong criticism.

terrific causing great fear or dismay; terrifying; dreadful; appalling.

Warehouses [Chiefly British] wholesale stores, or, especially, formerly, large retail stores.

prudence the ability to exercise sound judgment in practical matters.

faculties [Obsolete] powers to do; abilities to perform an action.

postilions persons who ride the left-hand horse of the leaders of a four-horse carriage.

post [Chiefly British] mail.

dilatory inclined to delay; slow or late in doing things.

dispirited having lowered spirits; saddened or discouraged.

procured got or brought about by some effort; obtained; secured.

licentiousness the disregarding of accepted rules and standards.

apprehending taking hold of mentally; perceiving; understanding.

augmented made greater, as in size, quantity, or strength.

heinous outrageously evil or wicked; abominable.

review an examination or inspection as of troops on parade.

copse a thicket of small trees or shrubs; coppice.

transports strong emotion, especially of delight or joy; rapture.

come upon the town become a prostitute.

secluded from the world gone into hiding because of a pregnancy out of wedlock.

situation a house, a place to live.

connubial of marriage or the state of being married; conjugal.

regulars the members of the standing army of a country.

subjoin to add (something) at the end of what has been stated.


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