 expressive and harmonious. In short, the company
began to understand one another; Mr. Pickle seemed to relish the entertainment,
and a correspondence immediately commenced between him and Trunnion, who shook
him by the hand, drank to further acquaintance, and even invited him to a mess
of pork and pease in the garrison. The compliment was returned, good fellowship
prevailed, and the night was pretty far advanced, when the merchant's man
arrived with a lanthorn to light his master home; upon which, the new friends
parted, after a mutual promise of meeting next evening in the same place.
 

                                  Chapter III

Mrs. Grizzle exerts herself in finding a Proper Match for her Brother; who is
accordingly introduced to the Young Lady whom he marries in due Season
 
I have been the more circumstantial in opening the character of Trunnion,
because he bears a considerable share in the course of these memoirs; but, now
it is high time to resume the consideration of Mrs. Grizzle, who, since her
arrival in the country, had been engrossed by a double care, namely, that of
finding a suitable match for her brother, and a comfortable yoke-fellow for
herself.
    Neither was this aim the result of any sinister or frail suggestion, but the
pure dictates of that laudable ambition, which prompted her to the preservation
of the family name. Nay, so disinterested was she in this pursuit, that,
postponing her nearest concern, or at least leaving her own fate to the silent
operation of her charms, she laboured with such indefatigable zeal in behalf of
her brother, that before they had been three months settled in the country, the
general topick of conversation in the neighbourhood, was an intended match
between the rich Mr. Pickle and the fair miss Appleby, daughter of a gentleman
who lived in the next parish, and who, though he had but little fortune to
bestow upon his children, had (to use his own phrase) replenished their veins
with some of the best blood in the county.
    This young lady, whose character and disposition Mrs. Grizzle had
investigated to her own satisfaction, was destined for the spouse of Mr. Pickle,
and an overture accordingly made to her father, who being overjoyed at the
proposal, gave his consent without hesitation, and even recommended the
immediate execution of the project with such eagerness, as seemed to indicate
either a suspicion of Mr. Pickle's constancy, or a diffidence of his own
daughter's complexion, which, perhaps, he thought too sanguine, to keep much
longer cool. The previous point being thus settled, our merchant,
