At present, the company is more agreeable than one could expect
from an accidental assemblage of persons, who are utter strangers
to one another -- There seems to be a general disposition among us
to maintain good-fellowship, and promote the purposes of
humanity, in favour of those who come hither on the score of
health. I see several faces which we left at Bath, although the
majority are of the Northern counties, and many come from
Scotland for the benefit of these waters -- In such a variety,
there must be some originals, among whom Mrs Tabitha Bramble is
not the most inconsiderable -- No place where there is such an
intercourse between the sexes, can be disagreeable to a lady of
her views and temperament -- She has had some warm disputes at
table, with a lame parson from Northumberland, on the new birth,
and the insignificance of moral virtue; and her arguments have
been reinforced by an old Scotch lawyer, in a rye periwig, who,
though he has lost his teeth, and the use of his limbs, can still
wag his tongue with great volubility. He has paid her such
fulsome compliments, upon her piety and learning, as seem to have
won her heart; and she, in her turn, treats him with such
attention as indicates a design upon his person; but, by all
accounts, he is too much of a fox to be inveigled into any snare
that she can lay for his affection.
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