Not Far
From Hence, In This Charming Quarter Of The Town, Lived The Renowned
Garrick.
Depend upon it I shall often visit this delightful walk
during my stay in London.
To-day my two Englishmen carried me to a neighbouring tavern, or
rather an eating-house, where we paid a shilling each for some roast
meat and a salad, giving at the same time nearly half as much to the
waiter, and yet this is reckoned a cheap house, and a cheap style of
living. But I believe, for the future, I shall pretty often dine at
home; I have already begun this evening with my supper. I am now
sitting by the fire in my own room in London. The day is nearly at
an end, the first I have spent in England, and I hardly know whether
I ought to call it only one day, when I reflect what a quick and
varied succession of new and striking ideas have, in so short a
time, passed in my mind.
CHAPTER III.
London, 5th June.
At length, dearest Gedike, I am again settled, as I have now got my
trunk and all my things from the ship, which arrived only yesterday.
Not wishing to have it taken to the Custom House, which occasions a
great deal of trouble, I was obliged to give a douceur to the
officers, and those who came on board the ship to search it. Having
pacified, as I thought, one of them with a couple of shillings,
another came forward and protested against the delivery of the trunk
upon trust till I had given him as much.
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