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` O , ' replied I , ` I am not sure that I shall go tomorrow . ' `` Just at this moment in came the master of the hotel , with the _ Morning Post _ in his hand , making me a low bow , and pointing to the insertion of my arrival at his hotel among the fashionables . This annoyed me ; and now that I found how difficult it was to get rid of my title , I became particularly anxious to be William Chucks , as before . Before twelve o'clock , three or four gentlemen were ushered into my sitting-room , who observing my arrival in that damn 'd _ Morning Post _ , came to pay their respects ; and before the day was over I was invited and re-invited by a dozen people . I found that I could not retreat , and I went away with the stream , as I did before at Gibraltar and Portsmouth . For three weeks I was everywhere ; and if I found it agreeable at Portsmouth , how much more so in London ! But I was not happy , Mr Simple , because I was a cheat , every moment expecting to be found out .