Bridget Allworthy Quotes in Tom Jones (1963)

Squire Allworthy: [Upon discovering an abandoned baby in his bed, which they suspect Jenny, one of the servants, has put there] Who is the father, Jenny?

Jenny: Sir, I am under the most solemn ties not to reveal the father's name.

Squire Allworthy: You must be sent away from this shame and degradation. As for your child I will bring him up as if he were my own son.

Bridget Allworthy: What will you call him, brother?

Squire Allworthy: Tom Jones.

Narrator: ...of whom the opinion of all was that he was born to be hanged.