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"These are heavy co at him attentively; "I should have expected froallantry, for he seeance than anybody here"

"O yes," cried Miss Larolles, "he is the sweetest dresser in the world; he has the ood a fancy I assure you it's a great thing to be spoke to by hiry when he won't take any notice of us"

"Is your anger," said Cecilia, laughing, "in honour of himself or of his coat?"

"Why, Lord, don't you know all this time that he is an ennuye?

"I know, at least," answered Cecilia, "that he would soon make one of me"

"O, but one is never affronted with an ennuye, if he is ever so provoking, because one always knohat it reeable?"

"Why, to tell you the truth,--but pray now, don't reeable! He yawns in one's face every time one looks at him I assure you someti to him, for he is so immensely absent he don't hear one half that one says; only conceive how horrid!"

"But why, then, do you encourage him? why do you take any notice of him?"

"O, every body does, I assure you, else I would not for the world; but he is so courted you have no idea However, of all things let me advise you never to dance with him; I did once myself, and I declare I was quite distressed to death the whole time, for he was taken with such a fit of absence he knew nothing he was about, so with all the violence in the world, just as if he only danced for exercise, and soainst the wainscoat and gaping, and taking no more notice of me than if he had never seento Cecilia, said, "So you would not do us the honour to try the masquerade at the Pantheon? however, I hear you had a very brilliant spectacle at Mr Harrel's I was quite au desespoir that I could not get there I did mon possible, but it was quite beyond me"

"We should have been very happy," said Mrs Harrel, "to have seen you; I assure you we had some excellent masks"

"So I have heard partout, and I am reduced to despair that I could not have the honour of sliding in But I was accable with affairs all day Nothing could be so "