MR.

WELBY arrived, and pleased everybody.

A man of the happiest manners, easy and courteous.

There was no pedantry in him, yet you could soon see that his reading covered an extensive surface, and here and there had dived deeply.

He enchanted the Parson by his comments on Saint Chrysostom; he dazzled Sir Peter with his lore in the antiquities of ancient Britain; he captivated Kenelm by his readiness to enter into that most disputatious of sciences called metaphysics; while for Lady Chillingly, and the three sisters who were invited to meet him, he was more entertaining, but not less instructive.