Day breaking, I have the Pleasure of viewing the Person of Miss Snapper, whom I had not seen before--the Soldier is witty upon me--is offended--talks much of his Valour--is reprimanded by a grave Gentlewoman--we are alarmed by the cry of Highwaymen--I get out of the Coach, and stand in my own defence--they ride off without having attacked us--I pursue them--one of them is thrown from his Horse and taken--I return to the Coach--am complimented by Miss Snapper--the Captain's Behaviour on this Occasion--the Prude reproaches me in a Soliloquy--I upbraid her in the same Manner--the Behaviour of Miss Snapper, at Breakfast, disobliges me--the Lawyer is witty upon the Officer, who threatens him In the meantime, the day breaking in upon us, discovered to one another the faces of their fellow travellers: and I had the good fortune to find my mistress not quite so deformed nor disagreeable as she had been represented to me.

Her head, indeed, bore some resemblance to a hatchet, the edge being represented by her face; but she had a certain delicacy in her complexion, and a great deal of vivacity in her eyes, which were very large and black; and, though the protuberance of her breast, when considered alone, seemed to drag her forwards, it was easy to perceive an equivalent on her back which balanced the other, and kept her body in equilibrio.

On the whole, I thought I should have great reason to congratulate myself if it should be my fate to possess twenty thousand pounds encumbered with such a wife.

I began therefore to deliberate about the most probable means of acquiring the conquest, and was so much engrossed by this idea, that I scarce took any notice of the rest of the people in the coach, but revolved my project in silence; while the conversation was maintained as before by the object of my hopes, the son of Mars, and the barrister, who by this time recollected himself, and talked in terms as much as ever.

At length a dispute happened, which ended in a wager, to be determined by me, who was so much absorbed in contemplation, that I neither heard the reference nor the question which was put to me by each in his turn.