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. Panoscope, highly irritated by the cool contempt with which Mr. Escot had treated him, sate sipping his coffee and meditating revenge. He was not long in discovering the passion of his antagonist for the beautiful Cephalis; and it was also obvious to him, that there was some lurking anger in the mind of her father, unfavourable to the hopes of Mr. Escot. Accordingly, after due deliberation, he resolved on cutting him out in the young lady's favour. The practicability of this design he did not trouble himself to investigate; for, the havoc he had made in the hearts of some silly girls, who were extremely vulnerable to flattery, and who, not understanding a word he said, considered him a prodigious