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"You cannot, then, have wanted a all the persons assembled in these apartments, I have seen only three who have seee but that of dress was necessary to disguise them"
"And pray who are those?"
"A Don Quixote, a schoolmaster, and your friend the devil"
"O, call him not arb he is particularly my aversion"
"My friend, then, I will call him," said the domino, "for so, were he ten devils, Iwith you And, after all, to give him his due, to which, you know, he is even proverbially entitled, he has shewn such abilities in the performance of his part, so much skill in the display of , that I cannot but respect his ingenuity and capacity And, indeed, if instead of an evil genius, he had represented a guardian angel, he could not have shewn a more refined taste in his choice of an object to hover about"
Just then they were approached by a young hayay and as brisk as if fresh from the hay-field after only half a day's work Pray, how is it you pretty lasses find employment for the winter"
"How?" cried she, pertly, "why, the same as for the summer!" And pleased with her own readiness at repartee, without feeling the ignorance it betrayed, she tript lightly on
Immediately after the schoolmaster mentioned by the white do gown of green stuff, a pair of red slippers, and a woollen night-cap of the same colour; while, as the symbol of his profession, he held a rod in his hand
"Ah, fair lady," he cried, "how soothing were it to the austerity of ht I-- without a breaking out of bounds, which I ought to be the first to discourage, and a "confusion to all order" for which the school-boy should himself chastise his master--be permitted to cast at your feet this eet, in the softness of your conversation, all the roughness of discipline!"
"No, no," cried Cecilia, "I will not be answerable for such corruption of taste!"
"This repulse," answered he, "is just what I feared; for alas! under what pretence could a poor ue presues, would not your living accents charm from me all power of reproof? Could I look at you, and hear a false concord? Should I dooruel as a dunce, would not my subsequent remorse make me want it myself as a madman? Were your fair hand spread out tomy lips to it, instead of my rat-tan? If I ordered you to be called up, should I ever remember to have you sent back? And if I commanded you to stand in a corner, how should I forbear following you thither myself?"