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 ecret of exhilarating the pirits, by a number of little anecdotes; and could retail the news of the day with infinite addres. In going his round of viits, after he had parted from the Countes, he recounted in every bed-chamber he entered the ingular interview with his new patient. The tory improved upon repetition: he ometimes humorouly repreented the Countes as diordered, ometimes as a peron gifted with econd ight. The company were eager to become acquainted with o extraordinary a character; and the Countes Cecilia became the table-talk of the day. The firt time he made her appearance in the rooms, with her beautiful daughters, all the world crouded to have a ight of them. But how were the ladies atonihed, to find the whole party here to whom they had been introduced o lately at the catle of my Lord Giantdale! They were firt of all truck by the Bohemian nobleman in the blue ribband, the reverend belly of the canon, and the paralytic privy counellor. They