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    never out of my own country , Sir—not but that it is necessary for some people to go abroad , I allow ; but ' tis not to my

    tast $ * pfra ^ Bickering - —Mr . Maxwell , - will you allow me the pleasure of assisting you to coffee ? Afaxwell bows . Mrs . Bickering . —Mr . Bickering , may I suggest to you to offer Mf . Maxwell some salmon ?

    Mr . Bickering . —I have my kipper direct from Scotland , as fine a $ ever was tasted . Young Maxwell . —{ Looking at a landscape . ) That is a very pretty thing : the English painters , it is said , especially in water colours , have made evident improvement of late years .

    Mr Bickering . —I flatter myself it is a pretty thing , Sir , —it is a Warley > —a wery extraordinary man , Warley . I know him ; & $ dines with me sometimes . You shall meet him here . I lite to encourage hart and hartists . Mrs . Bickerin g * my dear we must have Warley while Mr . Maxwell is here ; and Justice L , and Lady L : I am hand in fflove with them , { Sir .

    Young Maxwell . —Your valley of evergreens is richer than whefl I saw it last ; and those shrubs that then seemed dwarfs , are now giants . Ah ! there is the pet cottage , with its porch , which the successive seasons seemed to take a pride in adorning . Spring , with her honeysuckle , —Summer , with her convolvulus , —and Autumn anticipated Winter in shedding over all the luxuriant snow of her clematis . —Who has it now ?

    Mr . Bickering . —O , Miss Braygabble can tell you better than I . It looks pretty tolerable outside ; but it is wery small , —wery small indeed . Aunt Braygabble . —Yes , —and I flatter myself I have prevented our Mary Anne from forming a very objectionable acquaintance . They came in the summer , and invited her to a sort of Midsummer merry making ; sending a fantastical card , tied with ribbon to a bouquet of flowers , —the flowers

    were very beautiful , I must say ; but it seemed such a very strange way of doing things ; and as the families ha 4 , exchanged calls without seeing one another , —of course . Mary Anne s going was out of the question . Since then I have taken ome trouble to find out who these people are ; and certainly hey are anything but fit people for us to associate with . They are extremely eccentric ; keep all kinds of festivals ; act plays : and are far too free with their servants , —now

    servants are best kept in their places , —dont you think so , Mr , Maxwell ? YdUtig J ^ axtvell . ^ -V nd oubtedly , if they are good ones . Aunt Braygabble . —For my part I always prefer the good

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    96 Valentine ' s Day .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/32/