CHAPTER VII: IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.
Never having been able to master my countenance, I let loose the bridle of my tongue, and contracted the bad habit of thinking aloud. This procured me some pleasures and many enemies.
CHAPTER VIII: WHAT I WAS AND WHAT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
I have been very sensible of friendship and confidence; and if I had been born in the golden age, I might perhaps have been a very excellent man.
CHAPTER IX: RESPECTABLE PRINCIPLES.
I have never meddled in any marriages or scandal. I have never recommended a cook or a physician; and consequently have never attempted the life of any one.
CHAPTER X: MY TASTES.
I took pleasure in small parties, and was fond of a walk in the woods. I had an involuntary veneration for the sun, and his setting often made me sad. Of colors I preferred blue; in eating, beef with horse-radish; for drinking, cold water; at the theatre, comedy and farce; of men and women, open and expressive countenances. Hunchbacks of both sexes always had a peculiar charm for me, which I could never define.
CHAPTER XI: MY DISLIKES.
I had a dislike to sots and fops, and to intriguing women who make a game of virtue; a disgust for affectation; pity for made-up men and painted women; an aversion to rats, liquors, metaphysics, and rhubarb; and a terror of justice and wild beasts.