Before twelve o'clock, three or four gentlemen were ushered into my sitting-room, who observing my arrival in that damn'd _Morning Post_, came to pay their respects; and before the day was over I was invited and re-invited by a dozen people.

I found that I could not retreat, and I went away with the stream, as I did before at Gibraltar and Portsmouth.

For three weeks I was everywhere; and if I found it agreeable at Portsmouth, how much more so in London! But I was not happy, Mr Simple, because I was a cheat, every moment expecting to be found out.

But it really was a nice thing to be a lord.
"At last the play was over.

I had been enticed by some young men into a gambling-house, where they intended to fleece me; but, for the first night, they allowed me to win, I think, about L300.