Even if a man of rank is vulgar, it makes no difference in the orbit in which he moves: but your 'genteel gentlewomen' are so terribly dependent upon what Mrs.
Tomkins will say; so very uneasy about their relations and the opinion they are held in; and, above all, so made up of appearances and clothes; so undone if they do not eat, drink, and talk a la mode,--that I can fancy no shame like that of my poor sister at having found, and being found with, a vulgar brother." "I saw how unwelcome I was and I did not punish myself by a long visit.
I left her house and returned towards London.

On my road, I again met with my gypsy friends: the warmth of their welcome enchanted me; you may guess the rest.

I stayed with them so long that I could not bear to leave them; I re-entered their crew: I am one among them.

Not that I have become altogether and solely of the tribe: I still leave them whenever the whim seizes me, and repair to the great cities and thoroughfares of man.

There I am soon driven back again to my favourite and fresh fields, as a reed upon a wild stream is dashed back upon the green rushes from which it has been torn.