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Every previous measure being thus taken, they set out from Lisle
about six in the morning, and found themselves in the company of
a female adventurer, a very handsome young lady, a Capuchin, and a
Rotterdam Jew. Our young gentleman, being the first of this society
that entered, surveyed the stranger with an attentive eye, and
seated himself immediately behind the beautiful unknown, who at
once attracted his attention. Pallet, seeing another lady unengaged,
in imitation of his friend, took possession of her neighbourhood;
the physician paired with the priest, and Jolter sat down by the
Jew.
The machine had not proceeded many furlongs, when Pickle, accosting
the fair incognita, congratulated himself upon his happiness, in
being the fellow-traveller of so charming a lady. She, without the
least reserve or affectation, thanked him for his compliment; and
replied, with a sprightly air, that now they were embarked in one
common bottom, they must club their endeavours to make one another
as happy as the nature of their situation would permit them to be.


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