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Tired, at length, of evading the enquiries hs at the detectionat the west end of the town, to which he thence forward directed all his friends, and where, under various pretences, he contrived to spend the greatest part of his time

In all his expensive deceits and frolics, hisconfidant and assistant; for when she heard that the companions of her son were h stations, she concluded he was in the certain road to honour and profit, and frequently distressed herself, without ever repining, in order to enable him to preserve upon equal terms, connections which she believed so conducive to his future grandeur

In this wild and unsettled ainst the authority of his father, privately abetted by his mother, and constantly aided and admired by his sisters: till, sick of so desultory a way of life, he entered hirew tired of this change has already been related, [Footnote: Book 1, Chap II] as well as his reconciliation with his father, and his becoreeary of opposing, as the youngopposed

Here, for two or three years, he lived in happiness uninterrupted; he extended his acquaintance areat, by whom he was no sooner known than caressed and adh he blushed to own in public, he affectionately loved in private His profession, indeed, was but little in his thoughts, successive engagehted with the favour of the world, and charnal for entertainot the uncertainty of his fortune, and the inferiority of his rank: the la , pleasure becarees, he had not a day unappropriated to so the few leisure ence of his fancy in some hasty compositions in verse, which were handed about in manuscript, and which contributed to keep him in fashion

Such was his situation at the death of his father; a new scene was then opened to him, and for some time he hesitated what course to pursue

Old Mr Belfield, though he lived in great affluence, left not behind hihters, to each of whom he bequeathed L2000, had been deducted froreat, and his business was prosperous and lucrative