Trip 997 of 5400 collection book37

His tiewig degenerated into a major he sometimes appeared without a sword and wasbook72 even observed in public with a second days shirt. It was not long before he perceived that his landladys character had not been misrepresented. With regard to his appetite for women as it was an infirmity of his constitution which he could not overcome and as he was in no condition to gratify it at a great expense he had of late chosen a housekeeper from the hundreds of Drury and to avoid scandal allowed her to assume his name. He fed her distemper with divers inconsiderable trinkets such as copper medals corkscrews odd buckles and a paltry seal set in silver which were at different times laid as baits for her infirmity and always conveyed away with remarkable eagerness which he and his Dulcinea took pleasure in observing from an unsuspected place. In effect he gradually put on the exteriors of an author. Fathom struck with the description soon perceived how this womans disease might be converted to his advantage and after having obtained sufficient intelligence on pretence of satisfying his curiosity he visited the widow in consequence of a bill at her door and actually hired an apartment in her house whither he forthwith repaired with his inamorata.

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