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Quote 5. Fortel me that some tender maid, whose grandmother is not yet born, hereafter, when, under the fictitious name of Sophia, she reads the real worth which once existed in my Charlotte, shall, from her sympathetic breast, send forth a heaving sigh. Meaning. Here the narrator contemplates the immortalizing of Fielding's first wife, Charlotte Cradock, in the character of Sophia Western. The comment is tinged with wistful hope that her memory will live on and her virtues will be appreciated by other women in the future. This personal sentiment echoes the way that this novel is so concerned with marriage, and its implicit hope that people will learn to marry for happiness and not greed.