He notices the pleasing orderliness and cleanliness of the otherwise not well-favoured surroundings of Berlin as he approaches, considers the city itself too much extended for the number of its inhabitants, of whom it could hold twice as many, is favourably impressed by the fine large palace, the spacious well-built streets, the picturesque bridges, and congratulates himself that he and his fellow-traveller did not take lodgings in the broad but rather too quiet Franzosische Strasse.

Yes, our friend is fond of life and society.
Whether he thought man the proper study of mankind or not, as Pope held, he certainly found it the most attractive.

The passengers in the stage-coach were to him so many personages of a comedy.

There was an advocate who tried to shine with his dull jokes, an agriculturist to whom travelling had given a certain varnish of civilisation, and a German Sappho who poured forth a stream of pretentious and at the same time ludicrous complaints.

The play unwittingly performed by these unpaid actors was enjoyed by our friend with all the zest the feeling of superiority can give.