rising to make your bow, you carry away cushion.

the

Tes. There you are out, Ned; it is vitiatâ. Ned Tes. The D-1 it is!-I am very sorry for it: I should otherwise have considered it as the luckiest of all my hits.

Tes. Why, if you must have an authority for this Groan, I will give you " dulcia mella premes"-Nay, to make Sensitive quite easy, here's another for him :

Those certain moments of existence, in which, without any assignable cause, Ennui so powerfully predominates over your whole system, mental and bodily, that you would joyfully submit to the catand-nine-tails, by way of a flapper to your dormant excitability.

26. (S.)

During courtship-flattering yourself that you are a year or two younger than some" goodnatured friend or other" proves you to be.

27. (T.)

After bathing-the dull, rumbling, rushing, sound, which continues all day long in your ears, and which all your tweaking, nuzzling, and rummaging at them, serves only to increase.

Sen. Very sad, Sir;-you might here cry with poor Clarence,

"What dreadful noise of waters in my ears!"

but then his Misery was but a dream ;—would that ours were not realities!

28. (S.)

After having, with great difficulty, persuaded a friend to sit for his, or her, picture, and then feasting yourself with the thoughts of possessing a fac simile, which the great fame of the artist encouraged you to expect, receiving, after long delays, what proves to be the face of-any one but your friend!

Tes. Poor Sensitive!-That must have been quite a scene!

"animum picturâ pascit inani,

Multa gemens."

VIRG.

Sen. Yes-but there is another stroke of desperation, the same in kind, but far worse in degree:-I hope it will be new to you, though it occurred this very morning to myself:

29. (S.)

After having been promised what you expect will be the painted portrait of a friend-recei

Tes. Yes, yes-I have gone through it more than once; though, perhaps, I don't take it quite so patiently as you may: for my part,

whenever they send me their silhouettes, or what do they call them, I chuck them out of the window, as soon as they come into the

room;

is

"Come like Shadows?-so depart!" my address to the little blackamoors.

30. (T.)

Breaking a phial of assa fœtida in your pocket; -and then mangling, as well as poisoning your fingers, in taking out the bits of broken glass.

31. (S.)

Hiding your eyes with your hand, for a whole evening together, in vain attempts to recover a tune, or a name; said tune, &c. repeatedly flitting before you, but so rapidly as never to be fairly caught.

32. (S.)

Suddenly finding out that your watch has lost. two or three hours, while you have been revelling in a fool's paradise of leisure, and unconsciously outstaying your appointments, and disordering all the arrangements of the day, with nothing to have prevented you from adhering to them with perfect

ease.