 man's mind, this unexpected merit in his wife had that effect on Lord Hazard. He saw in an instant that his whole life had been one delusion; that while he had sought for pleasure, he had neglected happiness; and, therefore, resolved doubly to cherish it, since it had complacently condescended to come home to him.
Nobody had ever dared to tell him he was a dupe to Viney: he now saw it himself. He did not, however, think proper to withdraw his protection from him, but contented himself only with giving him a handsome rectory, to which that worthy incumbent shortly removed.
In about a twelvemonth after this second marriage—but hold, all great events should be ushered in with cautious preparation.

A watchmaker would have called the circumstance I am about to celebrate the main spring of this history; a sailor would have said it was its helm; and an alderman its marrow.
It is something, therefore, of material consequence; and, of course, proper to be given in a new chapter, and with a particular introduction:—all which ceremony, though it may be the limbs and outward flourishes of writing, is not without its use; and though more than PHEDRUS have said that a tree should be estimated by its fruit, and not by its leaves, yet it must be considered, that, without the proper shelter afforded by the leaves, no fruit could arrive to perfection.


IT falls out sometimes at the theatre, that, at the very moment the audience are sitting with expectation on its utmost stretch, an actor, with a woe-begone countenance, comes on the stage to announce the indisposition of the principal actress.
This once happened of Desdemona; and, as there was no lady in the company competent to the part but her whose name was in the bills, a gentleman undertook it at a very short warning. The spectators were, as usual, content per force; but, after waiting a considerable time, the apologizer was a second time obliged to come on, who assured the audience the play would soon begin, but at present Desdemona was not shaved.
I hope it will not be thought, by mentioning this case in point, that I mean to introduce in a ludicrous way, a matter of such eminent importance as that I now take the liberty of presenting to the

reader's notice; but, my amour propre is wounded: for being forced—at the very critical moment I considered myself happy beyond all example in the mode of introducing my hero—to stopt short, and put my readers in the exact situation of the spectators
