A VARIETY OF THE QUAKER TRIBE--WHO HAD A CURIOUS DISINTEGRATION OF MIND
AND BODY.
I was not yet weaned from the world, but I was fast advancing to that
state, when a very smart young Quaker came on a visit to Reading. He
was introduced to Mr and Mrs Cophagus, and was soon, as might be
expected, an admirer of Susannah, but he received no encouragement. He
was an idle person, and passed much of his time sitting in my shop, and
talking with me, and being much less reserved and unguarded than the
generality of the young men of the sect, I gradually became intimate
with him. One day when my assistant was out he said to me, "Friend
Gnow-land, tell me candidly, hast thou ever seen my face before?"
"Not that I can recollect, friend Talbot."
"Then my recollection is better than yours, and now having obtained thy
friendship as one of the society, I will remind thee of our former
acquaintance. When thou wert Mr N-e-w-land, walking about town with
Major Carbonnell, I was Lieutenant Talbot, of the -- Dragoon Guards."