He caused a skillful physician to attend me, and promptly provided me with every thing the occasion required, excepting a salubrious atmosphere; and on being told that this was indispensable to my recovery, he generously caused me to be transported on a litter to "Bel-Air," the beautiful and healthy villa in which he resided.

Here I was provided with a comfortable apartment, and received the kindest attention from Mrs.Church.After a severe struggle the fever left me in a weak and emaciated condition, and weeks elapsed before I was permitted to resume my duties of the estate.
My wardrobe, although it had been replenished by Bohun, in a style which I thought unnecessarily liberal was still far from approaching what, by persons of simple tastes, would be called genteel.

As I was now liable to be thrown into the company of the WELL-DRESSED visitors to Bel-Air, it was thought by Mr.Church perhaps at the suggestion of his wife that some improvement in my external appearance might be desirable.
Accordingly, one day, on returning from a journey to St.George, he brought me, greatly to my astonishment, a dress coat, of bottle-green hue, much too large, which he had purchased ready-made; a pair of stockinet pantaloons, too tight for even my slim shanks, and a flashy-looking vest, which, for aught I know, may have been made of the stuff called "thunder and lightning;" so that, when rigged out in my genteel habiliments, I must have looked not unlike Moses, in the "Vicar of Wakefield," going to the fair, but far more ridiculous! I cared less about the effect I might produce in my unaccustomed finery than the expense of such luxuries, which I knew I could not afford, and which would inevitably subject me to much inconvenience.

My salary, I found on inquiry, was a nominal one, barely sufficient to furnish me with ordinary comforts.

I had already incurred a serious debt in the purchase of a saddle and bridle and other articles which I could not dispense with; and although I fully believed Mr.Thomas would never call upon me to refund his disbursements on my account in St.George, I knew human nature too well to suppose that Mr.Church would not deduct from my salary the price of those genteel articles of dress, which were of no more use to me than a marlinspike to a dandy.