Mrs. Wilson receives two Lodgers. A Catalogue of some Dismemberments of a human Body. The sublime Character of an inconsiderable Being.

The suspicions of Johnson, to which we have alluded in the preceding chapter, would assuredly have not appeared entirely so unfounded, had he and the other friends of Charles known, as intimately as Vaurien did, what was passing in the small habitation of Mrs. Wilson; and indeed benevolence, though a very active virtue, is not of the most persevering nature; for the donor and the recipient in time become reciprocally weary.