To my great relief entered Miss Planta. He contrived to say,
"Remember, you promise to explain all this."

I made him no sort of answer, and though he frequently, in the
course of the evening, repeated, "I depend upon your promise! I
build upon a conference," I sent his dependence and his building
to Coventry, by not seeming to hear him.

I determined, however, to avoid all tête-à-têtes with him
whatsoever, as much as was in my power. How very few people are
fit for them, nobody living in trios and quartettos can imagine!


A CONCEITED PARSON.

Windsor.-Who should find me out now but Dr. Shepherd.(243) He is
here as canon, and was in residence. He told me he had long
wished to come, but had never been able to find the

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way of entrance before. He made me an immense length of visit,
and related to me all the exploits of his life,-so far as they
were prosperous. In no farce did a man ever more floridly open
upon his own perfections. He assured me I should be delighted to
know the whole of his life; it was equal to anything; and
everything he had was got by his own address and ingenuity.

"I could tell the king," cried he, "more than all the chapter. I