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than his rent-roll and his parchments. As we are more desirous of recording the impression he himself created, than of tracing how others appeared to him, we shall make a noiseless turn of the salons, and, spy-fashion, listen behind the chairs. "So you don't think him even good-looking, Lady Kilgoff?" said Mr. Linton, as he stood half behind her seat. "Certainly not more than good-looking, and not so much as nice-looking,--very awkward, and ill at ease he seems." "That will wear off when he has the good taste to give up talking to young ladies, and devote himself to the married ones." "Enchanting,--positively enchanting, my dear," exclaimed Mrs. Leicester White to a young friend beside her. "That description of the forest, over which the lianas formed an actual roof, the golden fruit hanging a hundred feet above the head, was the most gorgeous picture I ever beheld." "I wish you could persuade him," lisped a young lady with large blue eyes, and a profusion of yellow hair in ringlets, "to write that little story of the Zambo for Lady Blumter's Annual." "I say, Charlie," whispered the baronet to the aide-decamp, "but he's wide-awake, that Master Cashel; he's a very shrewd fellow, you'll see." "Do you mean to couch his eyes, Tom?" said Lord Charles, with his usual slow, lazy intonation; "what does he say about the races,--will he come?" "Oh, he can't promise, old Kennyfeck has a hold upon him just now about law business." "You will impress upon him, my dear Mr. Kennyfeck," said Mr. Meek, who held the lappet of the other's coat, "that there are positively--so to say--but two parties in the country,--the Gentleman and the Jacobin. Whig and Tory, orange and green, have had their day; and the question is now between those who have something to lose, and those who have everything to gain." "I really could wish that you, who are so far better qualified than I am to explain--" "So I will; I intend, my dear sir. Now, when can you dine with me? You must come this week; next I shall be obliged to be in London. Shall we say Wednesday? Wednesday be it Above all, take care that he doesn't even meet any of that dangerous faction,--those Morgans. They are the very people to try a game of ascendancy over a young man of great prospects and large fortune. O'Growl wants a few men of standing to give an air of substance and respectability to the movement. Lord Witherton will be most kind to your young friend, but yo
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