Doubtless she had never been ogled before; and she was evidently enraptured with my glances.

The next night I read of a ball at the Countess of -- -----'s.

My heart beat as if I were going to be whipped; but I plucked up courage, and repaired to her ladyship's.

There I again beheld the divine Lady Margaret; and observing that she turned yellow, by way of a blush, when she saw me, I profited by the port I had drunk as an encouragement to my entree, and lounging up in the most modish way possible, I reminded her ladyship of an introduction with which I said I had once been honoured at the Duke of Dashwell's, and requested her hand for the next cotillion.

Oh, Paul, fancy my triumph! The old damsel said, with a sigh, she remembered me very well, ha, ha, ha!--and I carried her off to the cotillion like another Theseus bearing away a second Ariadne.