correspondence; and he could not have taken a more effectual
method, than that of beating her dog. When he presented himself
at our door, to pay his respects to the offended fair, he was
refused admittance, and given to understand that he should never
find her at home for the future. She was not so inaccessible to
Derrick, who came to demand satisfaction for the insult she had
offered to him, even in the verge of his own court. She knew it
was convenient to be well with the Master of the Ceremonies,
while she continued to frequent the Rooms; and, having heard he
was a poet, began to be afraid of making her appearance in a
ballad or lampoon. -- She therefore made excuses for what she had
done, imputing it to the flutter of her spirits; and subscribed
handsomely for his poems: so that he was perfectly appeased, and
overwhelmed her with a profusion of
compliment. He even solicited a reconciliation with Chowder;
which, however, the latter declined; and he declared, that if he
could find a precedent in the annals of the Bath, which he would
carefully examine for that purpose, her favourite should be
admitted to the next public breakfasting -- But, I, believe, she
will not expose herself or him to the risque of a second
disgrace -- Who will supply the place of Mackilligut in her
affections, I cannot foresee; but nothing in the shape of man can
come amiss. Though she is a violent church-woman, of the most
intolerant zeal, I believe in my conscience she would have no
objection, at present, to treat on the score of matrimony with an
Anabaptist, Quaker, or Jew; and even ratify the treaty at the
expense of her own conversion. But, perhaps, I think too hardly
of this kinswoman; who, I must own, is very little beholden to
the good opinion of