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with one of her beautiful smiles, said 

 "I am sure I shall be highly ho- 

 noured by his acquaintance." 



There was only time for a few com- 

 monplaces on the beauty of the day, 

 &c., and a laugh and a hearty shake 



of the hand, with " How are you, ?" 



from her companion, when, the postil- 

 lions being ready to start, I withdrew, 

 with as an accomplished a farewell bow 

 as I knew how to perpetrate, or perhaps 

 the rules of society could desire. The 

 author of this attack upon the simpli- 

 city of my morning's conversation, ac- 

 companied me to the bar, where we 

 renewed our gossip over a bottle of cham- 

 pagne. 



The house where I stopped at Oxford 

 the " Roebuck "was then kept by two 

 young ladies, possessing other accomplish- 

 ments, both mental and personal, besides 

 those necessary for their station, without 



