 I saw you, that it is not probable I will lose this opportunity of renewing our acquaintance.

"Oh! your lordship is very obliging," said miss Woodby, suffering herself to be led into the parlour, while her transport at finding herself

treated with so much gallantry, and her passionate desire of pleasing, threw her into such ridiculous affectation, that every limb and feature was distorted. Compliment, to which she was very little used, acted like strong liquors upon a weak head, she became so intoxicated that she hardly knew what she did, which, joined to a natural aukwardness, produced the most absurd blunders in her behaviour; so that, endeavouring to trip with a lively motion to her seat, she overturned a light mahogany table that was in her way, and heard the crash of the china that was on it with very little emotion: the pleasure of shewing herself to the greatest advantage, absolutely engrossing her; and so unseasonably did she return his lordship's polite bow, when he had seated her in her chair, that their foreheads struck against each other with a force like the concussion of two rocks; but this accident, no more than the former, disturbed miss Woodby's enjoyment of her present happiness; and, wholly insensible to the pain of her forehead, she immediately entered into conversation with his lordship, asking him, with the liveliest air imaginable, if he had been at Ranelagh last night; never once making the least reflection upon what he had told her of her friend's being engaged with company, which,

as she knew her situation, might well have raised her curiosity.
The beau told her, he was not there;
but you and miss Benson were, I suppose,
added he.


Now your lordship mentions miss Benson,
said she (without answering his question)
pray tell me how you like her; is she not very handsome?

"Yes," replied my lord,
she is handsome; but,
added he, looking full at her,
she wants a certain lady's agreeable vivacity.

"Oh! your servant, my lord," said miss Woodby, making the application immediately;
but really, as your lordship observes, she wants vivacity; there is something heavy and lumpish in her.

"Yet she is genteel," said my lord.
Oh! extremely genteel,
cried miss Woodby;
but does not your lordship think she is rather too tall? being so slender as she is, does not that heighth give her a certain aukwardness?— But I really think she has one of the finest complexions
