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"I aer hand to his little brother and sister, who sprang to hi my father-and sister-in-law, Major and Miss Delavie"

"Ah! ood cousin, my excellent Mrs Betty, excuseto welcoood and friendly in you to come in this informal way to cheer me under this terrible anxiety Let me present you to ood as to come in to-day to sustain my spirits Colonel Mar you know already Pray be seated Aive you a cup of chocolate"

"Mada as if on parade, "can I see you alone? My business is urgent"

"No evil news, I trust! I have undergone such frightful shocks of late, h ruined"

"It is I that have to ask news of youwould break out that she would not wish to have said publicly "My time is so little my own," she said, "I am under command to be at the Palace by two o'clock, but in a few minutes I shall be able to dismiss my tormentor, and then, till my woman comes to dress me, I shall be at your service Sit down, I entreat, and take some chocolate I know Mrs Betty is an excellent housekeeper, and I want her opinion My dear Lady Aresfield, suffer me to introduce my esti in her feathers and powder like a beetroot in white sauce, favoured Betty with a broad stare Vulgarity was very vulgar in those days, especially when it had purchased rank, and thought ht be dispensed with Betty sat down, and Amoret climbed on her lap, while a diversion was made by Archer's imperious entreaty that his mamma would purchase a mandarin who not only nodded, but waved his hands and protruded his tongue

Then ensued what see suspense of the two Delavies, a senseless Babel of tongues on all sides; but it ended in the friseur putting up his ioods unpaid for, and the poor poet bowing himself within reach of the monkey, who made a clutch at his MS, chattered over it, and tore it into fragments There was a peal offorith gentle the door and following the poor uinea from his own pocket, while Colonel Mar exclaimed, "Here, Archer, boy, run after hi a sht never have done---"