. To
complete the picture, we must suppose some colouring--and this consisted
in a very nice and delicate touch of the rouge pot, which could not be
called by so harsh a term as paint; say, rather that it was a tinge.

No sooner had I set my eyes upon this figure, than I crossed over to
the side of the way which it was adorning, and followed its motions at a
respectful but observant distance.

At length my freluquet marched into a jeweller's shop in Oxford-street;
with a careless air, I affected, two minutes afterwards, to saunter
into the same shop; the shopman was shewing his bijouterie to him of the
Hessians with the greatest respect; and, beguiled by the splendour of
the wig and waistcoat, turned me over to his apprentice--another time,
I might have been indignant at perceiving that the air noble, on which
I piqued myself far more than all other gifts of nature, personal or
mental, was by no means so universally acknowledged as I had vainly
imagined--at that moment I was too occupied to think of my insulted
dignity. While I was pretending to appear wholly engrossed with some
seals, I kept a vigilant eye on my superb fellow customer: at last, I
saw him secrete a diamond ring, and thrust it, by a singular movement
of the fore finger, up the fur cuff of his capacious sleeve; presently,
some other article of minute size disappeared in the like manner.

The gentleman then rose, expressed himself very well satisfied by the
great taste of the jeweller, said he should look in again on Saturday,
when he hoped the set he had ordered would be completed, and gravely
took his departure amidst the prodigal bows of the shopman and his
helpmates; meanwhile, I bought a seal of small value, paid for it, and
followed my old acquaintance, for the reader has doubtless discovered,
long before this, that the gentleman was no other than Mr. Job Jonson.

Slowly and struttingly did the man of two virtues perform the whole
pilgrimage of Oxford-street. He stopped at Cumberland-gate, and, looking
round, with an air of gentlemanlike indecision, seemed to consider
whether or not he should join the loungers in the park: fortunately for
that well bred set, his doubts terminated in their favour, and Mr.
Job Jonson entered the park. Every one happened to be thronging to
Kensington Gardens, and the man of two virtues accordingly cut across
the park, as the shortest, but the least frequented way thither, in
order to confer upon them the dangerous ho