content to dine at the Public
Table, was put down as a Baron or a Chevalier; those who occupied the
rooms running round the galleries were saluted Merchants, or if they
chose it, Captains; but, in the gardens behind the Inn, there stood a
separate Building, called a Pavilion, most sumptuously appointed, and
the Great Room hung with the Story of Susannah and the Elders in Arras
Tapestry; and he who would pay enough for this Pavilion might have been
hailed as an Ambassador Plenipotentiary, as a Duke and Peer of France,
or even as a Sovereign Prince travelling incognito, had he been so
minded. For what will not Money do? Take our English Army, for instance,
which is surely the Bravest and the Worst Managed in the whole World. My
Lord buys a pair of colours for the Valet that has married his Leman,
and forthwith Mr. Jackanapes struts forth an Ensign. But for his own Son
and Heir my Lord will purchase a whole troop of Horse: and a Beardless
Boy, that a month agone was Birched at Eton for flaws in his Grammar,
will Vapour it about on the Mall with a Queue a la Rosbach, and a Long
Sword trailing behind him as a full-blown Captain of Dragoons.

I believe Pinchin's father to have been a Tailor. There is no harm in
the Craft, honestly exercised; but since the world first Began nine
Tailors have made a Man; and you cannot well see a knight of the shears
without asking in your own mind where he has left his Eight brethren.
Bartholomew Pinchin looked like a Tailor, talked like a Tailor, and
thought like a Tailor. Let it not, however, be surmised that I have any
mind to Malign the Useful Churls who make our Clothes. Many a time have
I been beholden to the strong Faith and Generous Belief of a Tailor when
I have stood in need of new Apparel, and have been under momentary
Famine of Funds for the Payment thereof. Those who are so ready to sneer
at a Snip, and to cast Cabbage in his teeth, would do well to remember
that there are Seasons in Life when the Goose (or rather he that wields
it) may save, not only the Capitol, but the Soldier who stands on Guard
within. How doubly Agonising is Death when you are in doubt as to whence
that Full Suit of Black needed on the Funeral Night will arrive! What a
tremor comes over you when you remember that this Day Week you are to be
Married, and that your Wedding Garment is by no means a certainty! What
a dreadful Shipwreck to your Fortune menaces you when you are bidden to
wait on a Great Man who has