with the ladies, he would not even return the compliment, or give
the least note of civility when they drank to his health, and, I
verily believe, would rather have suffered suffocation than allowed
the simple phrase--"your servant," to proceed from his mouth. He
was altogether as inflexible with respect to the attitudes of his
body; for, either through obstinacy or bashfulness, he sat upright
without motion, insomuch that he provoked the mirth of a certain
wag, who, addressing himself to the lieutenant, asked whether that
was the commodore himself, or the wooden lion that used to stand
at his gate?--an image, to which, it must be owned, Mr. Trunnion's
person bore no faint resemblance.

Mr. Hatchway, who was not quite so unpolished as the commodore,
and had certain notions that seemed to approach the ideas of common
life, made a less uncouth appearance; but then he was a wit, and
though of a very peculiar genius, partook largely of that disposition
which is common to all wits, who never enjoy themselves except when
their talents meet with those marks of distinction and veneration,
which, in their own opinion, they deserve.

These circumstances being premised, it is not to be wondered at,
if this triumvirate made no objections to the proposal, when some
of the graver personages of the company made a motion for adjourning
into another apartment, where they might enjoy their pipes and
bottles, while the young folks indulged themselves in the continuance
of their own favourite diversion. Thus rescued, as it were, from a
state of annihilation, the first use the two lads of the castle made
of their existence, was to ply the bridegroom so hard with bumpers,
that in less than an hour he made divers efforts to sing, and soon
after was carried to bed, deprived of all manner of sensation, to