I readily complied with his request, and tho' I see you are displeased at my conduct, yet as it was a debt indispensably due to friendship, I could not refuse.

I undertook the affair, disarmed my antagonist, and soon after had the pleasure of finding that the lady was only a woman of the town, and the fellow her bully and a sharper.

This piece of service was repaid with the warmest professions of gratitude; but as my friend was to leave town in a few days, he knew no other method of serving me, but by recommending me to his uncle Sir William Thornhill, and another nobleman of great distinction, who enjoyed a post under the government.

When he was gone, my first care was to carry his recommendatory letter to his uncle, a man whose character for every virtue was universal, yet just.

I was received by his servants with the most hospitable smiles; for the looks of the domestics ever transmit their master's benevolence.