Oh, don't stop to invent; I should detect you; and you would only spoil this man." He laughed conceitedly.

"I should spoil him! Well, then, he proposes to be your friend rather than your lover, and keep you from being talked of, he! he! instead of adding to your _eclat."_ "And if he is your friend, why don't you tell him my real character, and send him into the country ?" She said this rapidly and with an appearance of earnest.

The diplomatist fell into the trap.
"I do," said he; "but he snaps his fingers at me and common sense and the world.

I really think there is only one way to get rid of him, and with him of every annoyance." "Ah! that would be nice." "Delicious! I had the honor, madam, of laying certain proposals at your feet." "Oh! yes--your letter, Sir Charles.

I have only just had time to run my eye down it.