* There was Miss Clements, not handsome, but very learned, and who, as was easy to perceive, could hold a good argument, on occasion.

* There was Miss Cantillon; as pretty a young ladv as one would wish to behold in a summer s day.

* And there was one Miss Byron, a Northampton-shire lady, whom I never saw before.

* There was Mr. Walden, a most famous scholar. I thought him very entertaining; for he talked of learning, and such-like things; which I know not so much of as I wish I did; because my want of knowing a little Latin and Greek has made my understanding look less than other men’s. O my grandmother! what a wise man would the being able to talk Latin and Greek have made me! And yet 1 thought that now-and-then Mr. Walden made too great a. fuss about his.

* But there was a rich and noble baronet; richer than me, as they say, a great deal; Sir Hargrove Pollcxfun, if I spell his name right. A charming man! and charmingly dressed! and so many fine things he said, and was so merry, and so facetious, that he did nothing but laugh, as a man may say! And I was as merry as him to the full. W r hy not?

* O my grandmother! What with the talk of the young country lady, that same Miss Byron; for they put her upon talking a great deal; what with the famous scholar; who, however, being a learned man, could not be so mer