She no sooner came home than she sent for the gamekeeper, and ordered him to bring his daughter to her; saying she would provide for her in the family,and might possibly place the girl about her own person,when her own maid, who was now going away, had left her.
Questions:
A.Identify the title and the author.
B.What story does the novel tell?
A. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.
B. The story tells about Tom. the titular hero of the story, who is a boy found in Mr. Allworthy's house and brought up there with the kind old man's nephew Blifil. The latter, a hypocritical, wrecked man. is envious of Mr. Allworthy's fondness for the foundling and of Tom's intimacy with the beautiful Sophia, daughter of the well-off squire Western. He plays some tricks so that Mr. Allworthy drives Tom out of the house. Tom, intending to go to sea. wrongly takes the road to London,and Sophia, in rebellion against her father's desire that she be married to Blifil, marches out for London too, accompanied by her maid. The two young people,especially Tom.have many adventures on the road.but in the end, after some misunderstanding between them,they are happily united. (P123)