It filled a yawn of the Clubs for the afternoon.

Soon this wanton rumour was met and stifled by another of more morbific density, heavily charged as that which led the sad Eliza to her pyre.
ANTONIA's hero was easily identified.

THE YOUNG MINISTER of STATE could be he only who was now at all her parties, always meeting her; had been spied walking with her daily in the park near her house, on his march down to Westminster during the session; and who positively went to concerts and sat under fiddlers to be near her.

It accounted moreover for his treatment of Constance Asper.

What effrontery of the authoress, to placard herself with him in a book! The likeness of the hero to Percy Dacier once established became striking to glaringness--a proof of her ability, and more of her audacity; still more of her intention to flatter him up to his perdition.