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 Next morning I went to the apothecary's house, when the bargain was made; and orders were given to provide an apartment for me immediately. Before I entered on business, the Schoolmaster recommended me to his tailor, who gave me credit for a suit of clothes, to be paid out of the first money of my wages; he afterwards accommodated me with a hat on the same terms; so that in a few days I hoped to make a fashionable appearance. In the meantime Strap conveyed my baggage to the place alloted to me which was a brick room up two pair of stairs, furnished with a pallet for me to lie upon, a chair without a back an earthen chamber-pot with a  a bottle by way of a candlestick, and a triangular piece of glass instead of a mirror.

Next day while I was at work in the shop, a bouncing damsel, well dressed, came in on pretence of finding a vial for some use or other; and taking an opportunity of observing me very narrowly, went away with a silent look of disdain. At dinner, the maids, with whom I dined, informed me, that this was my master's only daughter; that he had been twice on the brink of marriage but disappointed by the stinginess of her father; for which Rh