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 trouble, that I fear the exertion would be too much for me.

Shall I teach you a compendious method of courtship, that will give you no trouble whatever?

You will confer on me an inexpressible obligation. I am all impatience to learn it.

Sit with your back to the lady, and read Dante, only be sure to begin in the middle, and turn over three or four pages at once—backwards as well as forwards; and she will immediately perceive that you are desperately in love with her—desperately.

(The Honorable Mr. Listless sitting between Scythrop and Marionetta, and fixing all his attention on the beautiful speaker, did not