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man as ever delighted in good offices ; and so 

 benevolent, that I am sure he will be almost 

 as happy in knowing you are amused, as you 

 can be in your sport; and he hopes for an 

 additional satisfaction in the pleasure of your 

 conversation. 



PoiET. — So let it be. 



Hal. — I will take you to the house ; you 

 shall make your bow, and then you will be all 

 free to follow your own fancies. Remember, 

 the dinner hour is five ; the dressing bell rings 

 at half-past four ; be punctual to this engage- 

 ment, from which you will be free at seven. 



PoiET. — This is really a very charming villa 

 scene, I may almost say, a pastoral scene. 

 The meadows have the verdure which even 

 the Londoners enjoy as a peculiar feature of 

 the English landscape. The river is clear, 

 and has all the beauties of a trout stream of 

 the larger size, — there rapid, and here still, and 

 there tumbling in foam and fury over abrupt 

 dams upon clean gravel, as if pursuing a na- 

 tural course. And that island with its poplars 

 and willows, and the flies making it their 

 summer paradise, and its litde fishing-house, 



