you cannot offend for the first time again."

"You are very ridiculous, said she laughing, but I am afraid your arguments divert me too muchto convince me."

"At least they will convince you that I am very agreable, which after all, is the happiest con::viction for me, and as to the affair of Propriety we will let that rest till we arrive at our Journey's end –. This is a monthly Ball I suppose.Nothing but Dancing here –––."

"I thought I had told you that it was givenby a M^r Dudley –"

"Oh! aye so you did; but why should not M^r Dudleygive one every month? By the bye who is that Man? Every body gives Balls now I think; I beleive I must give one myself soon –. Well, buthow do you like my Father & Mother? And poor little Camilla too, has not she plagued you todeath with the Halifaxes?" Here the Carriage for::tunately stopped at M^r Dudley's, and Stanley was too much engaged in handing her out of it, to wait