It is not as you would seem to say, by your winking at Lady Binks--it is not, indeed--I shall be no Lady Clementina, to be the wonder and pity of the spring of St.Ronan's--No Ophelia neither--though I will say with her, Good-night, ladies--Good night, sweet ladies!--and now--not my coach, my coach--but my horse, my horse!" So saying, she tripped out of the room by a side passage, leaving the ladies looking at each other significantly, and shaking their heads with an expression of much import.
"Something has ruffled the poor unhappy girl," said Lady Penelope; "I never saw her so very odd before." "Were I to speak my mind," said Lady Binks, "I think, as Mrs.Highmore says in the farce, her madness is but a poor excuse for her impertinence." "Oh fie! my sweet Lady Binks," said Lady Penelope, "spare my poor favourite! You, surely, of all others, should forgive the excesses of an amiable eccentricity of temper .-- Forgive me, my love, but I must defend an absent friend--My Lady Binks, I am very sure, is too generous and candid to 'Hate for arts which caused herself to rise.'" "Not being conscious of any high elevation, my lady," answered Lady Binks, "I do not know any arts I have been under the necessity of practising to attain it.

I suppose a Scotch lady of an ancient family may become the wife of an English baronet, and no very extraordinary great cause to wonder at it." "No, surely--but people in this world will, you know, wonder at nothing," answered Lady Penelope.
"If you envy me my poor quiz, Sir Bingo, I'll get you a better, Lady Pen." "I don't doubt your talents, my dear, but when I want one, I will get one for myself .-- But here comes the whole party of quizzes .-- Joliffe, offer the gentlemen tea--then get the floor ready for the dancers, and set the card-tables in the next room." FOOTNOTES: [I-15] The late Dr.Gregory is probably intimated, as one of the celebrated Dr.Cullen's personal habits is previously mentioned.

Dr.
Gregory was distinguished for putting his patients on a severe regimen.
[I-16] A fur pouch for keeping tobacco..