Part 10 (2/2)

I did not, as at Oxford, expect to find its inhabitants all saints

No: I had heard enious arts, by which they trick and prey upon each other, had been pictured to erous; and of these arts, self confident as I was, I stood in some awe But fore warned, said I, fore armed: and that I was not easily to be circumvented was still a part of my creed

Such were my qualities, character and expectations, when I entered the carriage that conveyed reat city It was early in thecained to be London, and was disappointed to find hted las of Turnham Green inning, which Hammers hted with lamps and with only here and there a house, was increased

At Kensington to ht h it when the coach stopped at the Gloucester Coffee-house, in Piccadilly I had already for h streets, over stones, and never out of sight of houses, and was astonished to be told that I was now only as it were at the entrance of London

The quantity of carriages we had passed, the incessant clattering of hoofs and rolling of wheels over the paveeneral buzz around me, the hurry and animation of the people, and the universal illumination of streets, houses, and shops, excited ideas which were new, unexpected, and alination conjured up a nificence! The world till now had to ; here onlyto circumstances, I had felt some similar emotions But that was a transient scene that quickly declined into stillness and cally the sahted to revel in this abundance: it seemed an infinitude, where satiety, its most fatal and hated enemy, could never come

I had questions innuence from the waiters, but in vain; they were too busy to attend to lect

However, I was overflowing; talk I oing in the coffee-rooet only short answers, and I wanted volumes

Thus disappointed, I went and stood at the door, that I h it was night, in London there is scarcely such a thing as darkness While I was standing here, a gentleman of a more complaisant temper came up and fell into conversation with 's palace was at no great distance The king's palace was indeed a teood-naturedly offered to walk and shew itproposal I readily accepted, and aent

As ere going down St Jaentlereat civility; it is very improbable; but who knows? Let him! There is no trick he is master of shall prevail on me to part with the little money I have in my pocket: of that I ah ainst me that they threw me flat on the pavement, and hurt me considerably My companion and another is uide requested me to stay there half a minute; he would see that the watch should soon secure the rascals; and off he ran, full speed The other kind gentleman followed his example

All this happened in an instant; and, while I was standing in a kind of aer, who had seen the transaction at a distance, came up and asked me--'Are you ?'--'Lost? [The question alarmedto do as I was desired and putting my hands down, I found my breeches pockets were both turned inside out, and emptied of their contents I stood speechless and motionless, while I was infors of pickpockets to throary passengers doith violence, pretend to pity and give the them up, and then decareat sientleman come back?'--'What! The man who ran off?'--'Yes'--'Back! No, no: you will never see his face more, I proate, or attend the Old Bailey'

There was no remedy! I stared for a moment, looked foolish, and returned toward the coffee-house; having taken care tothis story afterward, I learned further that to watch at inns and places where strangers arrive, and to play such tricks as may best succeed with them, is a very frequent practice with sharpers and pickpockets My only consolation was the sum was small; for I had been cautioned not to travel with much money about me, lest we should meet robbers on the road; and the advice happened to be serviceable That I had not my watch in my pocket was another lucky circuhwaymen had induced one, in the company of my purse

CHAPTER II

_A journey in town: Good breeding and morality: A new order of priests: A clerical character, or the art of pleasing: Episcopal influence: More gazing: A strange adventure, and the first sight of a play_

As soon as I had breakfasted in the e my dress, powder my hair, put my watch in my pocket, inquire ht it y the bestbefore a bishop

My letters, for I had tere addressed to the reverend Enoch Ellis, Suffolk-Street, Middlesex Hospital Which way I went I cannot now tell, but I had so hts to see, shops to examine, and curiosities to ad perhaps a mile or much more out of my road, I was at least two hours before I came to my journey's end

I knocked at the door, and was told by the servant that his e? I replied I had letters, which I wished to deliver into his own hand The reverend Enoch, who as it appeared was listening through an aperture left purposely at the parlour door, put his head out, like a turtle froentleman in; he would be with hiye, or, as it must be, command, his servant to tell a lie? It was inconceivable! I knew nothing of fashi+onabledenied to people whoht insolent or false, was the general practice of the well bred At that ti: I had it all to learn! But indeed, so dull ayman's or any honest man's duty or interest to teach servants to lie is to me incomprehensible The difficulty, as I have found it, is to teach both them and all classes of people to tell the truth What the morality of the practice is cannot be a serious question

Before I proceed with that part of my story in which the reverend Enoch Ellis takes a share, it is necessary to re up in modern times a clerical order of men, very distinct in manners and character from the subservient curate, or the lordly parish priest Houses in London have lately been built h the zeal of these times does not equal that of ancient days, when our cities were divided into nuion was the universal trade of mankind, and when the temples of superstition reared their proud heads in every alley, still eous, even in these days of infidelity, to build here and there a chapel, and to let each of these chapels out to the best clerical bidder; who in his turn uses all his influence to allure the neighbourhood to hire, in retail, those bits and parcels, called pews, that, for the gratification of pride, are measured off within the consecrated walls which he has hired wholesale In these undertakings, if the preacher cannot make himself popular, it is at least his interest to

Of one of these chapels Enoch Ellis was the fareneral; and this necessary endeavour to please had produced in him a remarkable contrast of character He was a little hs and a pot belly, but precisely upright: an archbishop could not carry hi; his neck stiff; his head thrown back; his eyes of the ferret kind, red, tender and e, and at the end of the colour and forerbread nut, but with little nostril; his lips thin; his teeth half black half yellow; his ears large; his beard and whiskers sandy; his hair dark, but kept in buckle, and powdered as white as a eneral aspect jaundiced and mean