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sonnets, and thou wilt stand in as great favour with her as ever.

Why did you not tell me this before?

How should I divine all the romantic fancies of thy brain?

I think his patience in giving that restless urchin lessons from Euclid, might have led you pretty near the truth.

To be sure it might have done so, had Nature endowed me with the organ of suspectiveness.

Say no more upon that subject, I beseech you. Any blackguard may henceforth pull my watch from its pocket, and I will only suppose that he wants, as the crowd presses round, to see what it is o'clock, poor youth!

And I will be so constant to my purpose, that the most methodical lady of a parish district may make an appointment with me, and be sure of my being at her door, as her household clock gives warning for the hour. I will not even