Explanation: In contrast to Lady Booby, who is possessed by a kind of cold lust that seeks merely to use its objects for the gratification of body and ego, Mrs. Slipslop lust could be called warm, for it does in one way connect her with humanity.

Answer: This is an extract from Joseph Andrews, a prose satire by Henry Fielding. Here the novelist very ironically makes a comparison between Lady Booby and Mrs. Slipslop to show the nature of their sexual lust and pride as evinced in the novel.

Lady Booby is a complex and interesting character in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. In the text, the novelist attempts to make a psychological analysis of her character making a comparison with Mrs. Slipslop. She appears as an embodiment of typical and individual qualities. She is the personification of unreasonable lust and affectation of gentility but her way is somehow gentle and mild than that of Mrs. Slipslop who is a hungry tigress. She entertains a lustful passion for the handsome young Joseph, yet she is not so vigorous and passionate as Mrs. Slipslop. Her attempted seduction of Joseph is a parody of Mrs. Slipslop’s efforts in the same direction. She tries to entrap Joseph in different ways but fails like the crazies Mrs. Slipslop who jumped on him. The mock-heroic simile is as amusing as it is appropriate for their characterization which is evident in the above lives.

So, the art of narration that Fielding displays in Joseph Andrews becomes known through the artistic presentation of his characters. It is similarly true to the depiction of Lady Booby and Mrs. Slipslop as it is established in the above comments concerning their nature.