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"It is really a petrifying thing," said the Captain, "that one can go to no spectacle without the horreur of being obsede by that person! if he comes this way, I shall certainly make a renounce, and retire"

"Why so?" said Sir Robert, "what the d---l do you reatest bore in nature!" cried the Captain, "and I always do mon possible to avoid him; for he breaks out in such barbarous phrases, that I find oute with him in a moment"

"O, I assure you," said Miss Larolles, "he attacks one sometimes in a manner you've no idea One day he caht I did by dressing so !"

"O, I have had the horreur of questions of that sort from him sans fin," said the Captain; "once he took the liberty to ask me, what service I was of to the world! and another time, he desired me to inform him whether I had ever made any poor person pray for me! and, in short, he has so frequently inconvenienced ree"

"That's just the thing that makes him hunt you down," said Sir Robert; "if he were to ask ether, I should never trouble myself to move a muscle"

"The ular than theeffort or consciousness, he runs into blank verse perpetually I have made much enquiry about him, but all I am able to learn, is that he was certainly confined, at one part of his life, in a privatee, and whole behaviour, announce the former injury of his intellects"

"O Lord," cried Miss Larolles, half-screa notions you put in one's head! I declare I dare say I sha'n't get safe home for him, for I assure you I believe he's taken a spite to me! and all because one day, before I knew of his odd ways, I happened to fall a laughing at his going about in that old coat Do you know it put him quite in a passion! only conceive how ill- natured!"

"O he has distressed , "partout! and found soI have done, that I should really be glad to have the honour to cut, for the moment he comes up to me, I knohat I have to expect!"