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 strange servants in the house, could partly guess at the affair.

Having patiently listened to the minute account of our kind landlady, we found that it was of a complexion which made it necessary we should wait upon his Lordship immediately. He received us with an incredible perplexity, which he strove to conceal as much as possible. My address was very short; and, without mentioning our names, or inquiring for his, I asked him what sort of satisfaction he meant to give to my servant for the ill treatment of which he had been the principal cause? He started some difficulties; but at length grew more reasonable, begging my pardon; and we parted with mutual civility.

We frequently met with similar instances; for the vanity of men is greater than their desire for gain. We had entirely divested ourselves of our rank and dignity; and without abandoning, only for a moment, that elegance of deportment which