health unimpaired?"--"You have lived," said she, "to see my obligations
to Sir Launcelot Greaves accumulated in such a manner, that a whole life
spent in acknowledgment will scarce suffice to demonstrate a due sense of
his goodness."--"You greatly overrate my services, which have been rather
the duties of common humanity, than the efforts of a generous passion,
too noble to be thus evinced;--but let not my unseasonable transports
detain you a moment longer on this detested scene. Give me leave to hand
you into the coach, and commit you to the care of this good lady,
attended by this honest young gentleman, who is my particular friend."
So saying, he presented Mr. Thomas Clarke, who had the honour to salute
the fair hand of the ever-amiable Aurelia.

The ladies being safely coached under the escort of the lawyer, Sir
Launcelot assured them he should wait on them in the evening at the house
of Dr. Kawdle, whither they immediately directed their course. Our hero,
who remained with the constable and his gang, inquired for Mr. Bernard
Shackle, upon whose person he intended to serve a writ of conspiracy,
over and above a prosecution for robbery, in consequence of his having
disencumbered the knight of his money and other effects, on the first
night of his confinement. Mr. Shackle had discretion enough to avoid
this encounter, and even to anticipate the indictment for felony, by
directing one of his servants to restore the cash and papers, which our
adventurer accordingly received before he quitted the house.

In the prosecution of his search after Shackle, he chanced to enter the
chamber of the bard, whom he found in dishabille, writing at a table,
with a bandage over one eye, and his head covered with a nightcap of
baize. The knight, having made an apology for this intrusion, desired
to know if he could be of any service to Mr. Distich, as he was now
at liberty to use the little influence he had for the relief of his