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months had made in the position and habits of 

 the gentleman alluded to. 



To be brief he is no longer a bachelor ! 

 As poor Jenks said, ( he is another's ! ' Incon- 

 venient, however, as may be the avowal, we 

 find that we really cannot get along any farther 

 without making it, and are therefore obliged to 

 acknowledge the engagement he has entered into, 

 at the risk of having our tale laid aside, as 

 already too long ! 



Look at him now : still in the ' Kynge's Pole/ 

 hesitating between one passage and another, as 

 was not his former wont, and recognize the cause 

 in that fair form around which he so constantly 

 hovers, ready it would seem to share her fate, 

 whatever it may be, reconnoitring every portion 

 of the contemplated leap with an anxious care, 

 which contrasts strangely with the rash temerity 

 of his early years ; evidently calculating, not his 

 own powers for the assault, but hers, to whose 

 side he ever again returns from each enquiring 

 sally. 



Tis well that what we see so distinctly, the 

 water hides from other eyes, however eager ! 

 Two such prizes as himself and his beautiful 

 mate are seldom to be taken with one sweep of 

 the net ! 



Well, we are in the humour to be confidential, 



