Jolter, attended by the lacquey, took a turn round
the ramparts, and viewed the particulars of the fortification.
Tom was so very successful in his inquiry, that when his master
returned he was able to give him a very satisfactory account of his
fellow-lodgers, in consequence of having treated his brother with
a bottle of wine. The people in question were a gentleman and his
lady lately arrived from England, in their way to Paris. The husband
was a man of good fortune, who had been a libertine in his youth,
and a professed declaimer against matrimony. He wanted neither sense
nor experience, and piqued himself in particular upon his art of
avoiding the snares of the female sex, in which he pretended to be
deeply versed; but, notwithstanding all his caution and skill, he
had lately fallen a sacrifice to the attractions of an oyster-wench,
who had found means to decoy him into the bands of wedlock; and, in
order to evade the compliments and congratulations of his friends
and acquaintance, he had come so far on a tour to Paris, where
he intended to initiate his spouse in the beau monde.
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