n the Physicians of the Place.

The fame of their exploit against the sharpers was immediately diffused
through all the companies at Bath; so that, when our adventurers
appeared in public, they were pointed out by an hundred extended
fingers, and considered as consummate artists in all the different
species of finesse, which they would not fail to practise with the first
opportunity. Nor was this opinion of their characters any obstacle to
their reception into the fashionable parties in the place; but, on the
contrary, such a recommendation, which, as I have already hinted, never
fails to operate for the advantage of the possessor.

This first adventure, therefore, served them as an introduction to
the company at Bath, who were not a little surprised to find their
expectations baffled by the conduct of the two companions; because,
far from engaging deeply at play, they rather shunned all occasions of
gaming, and directed their attention to gallantry, in which our hero
shone unrivalled. His external qualifications, exclusive of any other
merit, were strong enough to captivate the common run of the female sex;
and these, reinforced with a sprightliness of conversation, and a
most insinuating address, became irresistible, even by those who were
fortified with pride, caution, or indifference. But, among all the
nymphs of this gay place, he did not meet with one object that disputed
the empire of his heart with Emilia, and therefore he divided his
attachment according to the suggestions of vanity and whim; so that,
before he had resided a fortnight at Bath, he had set all the ladies
by the ears, and furnished all the hundred tongues of scandal with full
employment. The splendour of his appearance excited the inquiries of
envy, which, instead of discovering any circumstances to his prejudice,
was cursed with the information of his being a young gentleman of a good
family, and heir to an immense fortune.

The countenance of some of his quality friends, who arrived at Bath,
confirmed this piece of intelligence. Upon which his acquaintance
was courted and cultivated with great assiduity; and he met with such
advances from some of the fair sex, as rendered him extremely fortunate
in his amours. Nor was his friend Godfrey a stranger to favours of the
same kind; his accomplishments were exactly calculated for the meridian
of female taste; and, with certain individuals of that sex, his muscular
frame, and the robust connection o