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When she entered the pit, he had abundance
of food for the gratification of his vanity; for, in a moment,
she eclipsed all the female part of the audience; each individual
allowing in her own heart that the stranger was by far the handsomest
woman there present, except herself.
Here it was that our hero enjoyed a double triumph; he was vain
of this opportunity to enhance his reputation for gallantry among
the ladies of fashion who knew him, and proud of an occasion to
display his quality acquaintance to Emilia, that she might entertain
the greater idea of the conquest she had made, and pay the more
deference to his importance in the sequel of his addresses. That
he might profit as much as possible by this situation, he went up
and accosted every person in the pit, with whom he ever had least
communication, whispered and laughed with an affected air of
familiarity, and even bowed at a distance to some of the nobility,
on the slender foundation of having stood near them at court, or
presented them with a pinch of rappee at White's chocolate-house.


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