That slight inclination of two persons with a strong affinity towards each other, throwing them a little out of plumb when they sit side by side, is a physical fact I have often noticed.

Then there is a tendency in all the men's eyes to converge on her; and I do firmly believe, that, if all their chairs were examined, they would be found a little obliquely placed, so as to favor the direction in which their occupants love to look.
That bland, quiet old gentleman, of whom I have spoken as sitting opposite to me, is no exception to the rule.

She brought down some mignonette one morning, which she had grown in her chamber.

She gave a sprig to her little neighbor, and one to the landlady, and sent another by the hand of Bridget to this old gentleman.
-- Sarvant, Ma'am I Much obleeged,--he said, and put it gallantly in his button-hole .-- After breakfast he must see some of her drawings.

Very fine performances,--very fine!--truly elegant productions, truly elegant!--Had seen Miss Linwood's needlework in London, in the year (eighteen hundred and little or nothing, I think he said,)--patronized by the nobility and gentry, and Her Majesty,--elegant, truly elegant productions, very fine performances; these drawings reminded him of them;--wonderful resemblance to Nature; an extraordinary art, painting; Mr.Copley made some very fine pictures that he remembered seeing when he was a boy.