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Rh drive his more successful rival from the field. She made excellent gravies, and, as I took an interest in her fate, I remonstrated on the folly of marrying a man who had acted so basely—'but you see, sir—if you please—it was all for love of me,'—and she actually did marry him." Edward Lorraine.—"I am thoroughly convinced a little extravagance rather recommends a lover to his mistress. All women are naturally romantic. Perhaps the even tenor of their lives makes them peculiarly enjoy excitement. One unaccountable action would do more for you than all the flattery that the court of Louis the Fourteenth ever embodied in a phrase." Mr. Morland.—"You are theoretic, my young friend; rely upon it, that no general rule ever held good in love." Edward Lorraine.—"No general rule ever held good in any thing. Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon—that which raises it from earth." Mr. Morland.—"And we know the usual fate of such aërial adventures—a fall to earth, which, if it does not unfit us, at least disinclines us from any more such 'skiey enterprises.' And what, after all, are our greatest efforts in life but ascents in a balloon?—and then