I might here, in imitation of some celebrated writers, furnish out
a page or two, with the reflections he made upon the instability
of human affairs, the treachery of the world, and the temerity
of youth; and endeavour to decoy the reader into a smile, by some
quaint observation of my own, touching the sagacious moraliser:
but, besides that I look upon this practice as an impertinent
anticipation of the peruser's thoughts, I have too much matter of
importance upon my hands, to give the reader the least reason to
believe that I am driven to such paltry shifts, in order to eke out
the volume. Suffice it then to say, our adventurer passed a very
uneasy night, not only from the thorny suggestions of his mind,
but likewise from the anguish of his body, which suffered from
the hardness of his couch, as well as from the natural inhabitants
thereof, that did not tamely suffer his intrusion. In the morning
he was waked by Pipes, who brought upon his shoulder a portmanteau
filled with necessaries, according to the direction of Cadwallader;
and, tossing it down upon the floor, regaled himself with a quid,
without the least manifestation of concern.
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