How I despised the new suit, of which a few minutes before I had felt so proud.

The remarks of the younger lady tingled in my ears for weeks.

She had considered me worth looking at, in spite of my unfashionable garments; and I blessed her for the amiable condescension, and thought her in return as beautiful as an angel.

I never saw her again--but I caught myself scribbling her name on my desk, and I covered many sheets of waste paper with indifferent rhymes in her praise.
This confession may call up a smile on the lip of the reader, and I am content that he should accuse me of vanity.

But these were the first words of commendation which had ever reached my ears from the lips of woman, and though I have since laughed heartily at the deep impression they made on my mind, they produced a beneficial effect at the time, and helped to reconcile me to my lot.
It was about this period, that Mr.Bassett left the office, and went into the profession on his own account.