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in regard to you, my dear Sir, which I very naturally supposed just now might have presented themselves to your own.

Sea. Ha! did Lord Clacker and the Marquis of Lackland talk of my speech, and my abili—I mean the probable effects of my situation and connexions?

Sir C. I assure you they spoke of both in a way very gratifying for a friend, so much interested in your promotion as I am, to hear—but remember, I give you no advice: I am a young man, and apt, perhaps, to be too sanguine where the admiration of talents may mislead me: I am too presumptuous to mention my opinion at all.

''Sea. (taking his hand with warmth.)'' O no! I like you the better for it! to be warmly sanguine is characteristic and graceful in youth; and perhaps this propensity does not more often mislead it than the timorous caution of age.—You mention a friend to whom I might resign my pretensions to this office.,

Sir C. I did, Sir Anthony; but I now feel an embarrassment.—I'm sure it would never have enter'd into my imagination to think of it. But will you be kind enough to take a turn with me in the garden? there are some things that must be explain'd to you at length, lest you should at all misconceive what I am going to propose to you.(Exeunt.