stairs with
her ladyship; but no, she would not suffer it. "Edward," says she to
the coachmin, quite loud, and pleased that all the people in the hotel
should hear her, "you will take the carriage, and drive HIS LORDSHIP
home." Now, can you guess who his lordship was? The Right Hon. the
Earl of Crabs, to be sure; the very old genlmn whom I had seen on such
charming terms with his son the day before. Master knew this the nex
day, and began to think he had been a fool to deny his pa the thousand
pound.

Now, though the suckmstansies of the dinner at the ambasdor's only came
to my years some time after, I may as well relate 'em here, word for
word, as they was told me by the very genlmn who waited behind Lord
Crabseses chair.

There was only a "petty comity" at dinner, as Lady Bobtail said; and my
Lord Crabs was placed betwigst the two Griffinses, being mighty ellygant
and palite to both. "Allow me," says he to Lady G. (between the soop and
the fish), "my dear madam, to thank you--fervently thank you for your
goodness to my poor boy. Your ladyship is too young to experience, but,
I am sure, far too tender not to understand the gratitude which must
fill a fond parent's heart for kindness shown to his child. Believe
me," says my lord, looking her full and tenderly in the face, "that the
favors you have done to another have been done equally to myself, and
awaken in my bosom the same grateful and affectionate feelings with
which you have already inspired my son Algernon."

Lady Griffin blusht, and droopt her head till her ringlets fell into her
fish-plate: and she swallowed Lord Crabs's flumry just as she would so
many musharuins. My lord (whose powers of slack-jaw was notoarious) nex
addrast another spitch to Miss Griffin. He said he'd heard how Deuceace
was SITUATED. Miss blusht--what a happy dog he was--Miss blusht crimson,
and then he sighed deeply, and began eating his turbat and lobster
sos. Master was a good un at flumry, but, law bless you! he was no moar
equill to the old man than a mole-hill is to a mounting. Before the
night was over, he had made as much progress as another man would in a
ear. One almost forgot his red nose and his big stomick, and his wicked
leering i's, in his gentle insiniwating woice, his fund of annygoats,
and, above all, the bewtific, morl, religious, and honrabble toan of his
genral conservation. Praps you will say that these ladies were, for such
rich pipple, mightaly esaly captivated;