-pox; she
hoped she was not so VERY much disfigured as people said.

At this remark about his wife's malady, my Lord Viscount winced and
turned red; but the Dowager, in speaking of the disfigurement of the
young lady, turned to her looking-glass and examined her old wrinkled
countenance in it with such a grin of satisfaction, that it was all her
guests could do to refrain from laughing in her ancient face.

She asked Harry what his profession was to be; and my lord, saying that
the lad was to take orders, and have the living of Castlewood when old
Dr. Tusher vacated it, she did not seem to show any particular anger at
the notion of Harry's becoming a Church of England clergyman, nay, was
rather glad than otherwise, that the youth should be so provided for.
She bade Mr. Esmond not to forget to pay her a visit whenever he passed
through London, and carried her graciousness so far as to send a purse
with twenty guineas for him, to the tavern at which my lord put up (the
"Greyhound," in Charing Cross); and, along with this welcome gift for
her kinsman, she sent a little doll for a present to my lord's little
daughter Beatrix, who was growing beyond the age of dolls by this time,
and was as tall almost as her venerable relative.

After seeing the town, and going to the plays, my Lord Castlewood and
Esmond rode together to Cambridge, spending two pleasant days upon the
journey. Those rapid new coaches were not established, as yet, that
performed the whole journey between London and the University in a
single day; however, the road was pleasant and short enough to Harry
Esmond, and he always gratefully remembered that happy holiday which his
kind patron gave him.

Mr. Esmond was entered a pensioner of Trinity College in Cambridge,
to which famous college my lord had also in his youth belonged. Dr.
Montague was master at this time, and received my Lord Viscount with
great politeness: so did Mr. Bridge, who was appointed to be Harry's
tutor. Tom Tusher, who was of Emanuel College, and was by this time
a junior soph, came to wait upon my lord, and to take Harry under his
protection; and comfortable rooms being provided for him in the great
court close by the gate, and near to the famous Mr. Newton's lodgings,
Harry's patron took leave of him with many kind words and blessings,
and an admonition to him to behave better at the University than my lord
himself had ever done.

'Tis needless in these memoirs to go at any length in