I know, of course, I am accountable for all these calamities; but it cannot be helped now--my conscience must bear it." "You should not look back upon these things with too much remorse," replied the conjurer; "forget them--bear a more relenting heart; make some man happy, and marry.

Have you no person at present in your eye with whom you could share your charms and your fortune ?" "O, sir, you are complimentary." "Not at all, madam; speak to me candidly, as you perceive I do to you." "Well, then," she replied, "there is a young gentleman with whom I should wish to enter into a--a domestic--that is--a matrimonial connection." "Pray what age is he ?" "Indeed, he is but young, scarce nineteen; but then he is very wild, and I--I--have--indeed I am of too kind a heart, sir.

I have supplied his extravagance--for so I must call it--poor boy--but cannot exactly get him to accept a legitimate right over me--I fear he is attached elsewhere--but you know he is young, sir, and.

not come to his ripe judgment yet.

I read your handbill, sir; and if you could furnish me with a--something--ahem--that might enable me to gain, or rather to restore his affections--for I think he was fond of me some few months ago--I would not grudge whatever the payment might be." "You mean a philter ?" "I believe that is what it is called, sir." "Well, madam, you shall be supplied with a philter that never fails, on the payment ol twenty-one shillings.