The Stranger, whose appearance did not disgracethe account she had received of it from her Maid, rose up on her entrance, and laying aside the Newspaper he had been reading, advanced towardsher with an air of the most perfect Ease & Viva::city, and said to her, "It is certainly a very awk::ward circumstance to be thus obliged to intro::duce myself, but I trust that the neceſsity ofthe case will plead my Excuse, and preventyour being prejudiced by it against me –. Yourname, I need not ask Ma'am –. ^{Miſs Percival} Miſs Peterson is too well known to me by description to need anyinformation of that." Kitty, who had been ex::pecting him to tell his own name, instead of hers, and who from having been little in compa::ny, and never before in such a situation, feltherself [.]¹ unable to ask it, tho'though she had been planning her speech all the way down stairs, wasso confused & distreſsed by this unexpected addreſs that she could only return a slight curtesy to it, and accepted the chair he reached her, without