 among them.
You may believe, Sophia, we were all not a little desirous of knowing the name of a person whose address and appearance had prepossessed us so strongly in his favour, and with whom we had been conversing for hours on a footing of intimacy. He had greatly the advantage of us in this particular, had his curiosity been equally excited; for hearing Mr. Howard, my sister, and myself, mutually name each other, he was enabled to give us our proper appellations of distinction, while all we could discover in regard to him was, what occasionally dropt from him in the course of conversation, and that went no further than to inform us that he had been several years abroad, which time he had spent in residing at the different courts of Europe, where he appeared intimately acquainted with several characters of eminence

not wholly unknown to Mr. Howard.
When Fanny and I got up to retire for the night, he approached to take leave of us, saying that family affairs required him to hasten his departure; but the happiness of your company, said he, has made me steal a few hours from my journey: but may I be allowed to flatter myself that you will permit me the favour of enquiring after your healths in town, where I hope to be in a short time. I confess the boldness of this request may justly induce you to accuse me of temerity; but after the good fortune fate has conferred in this introduction, I cannot prevail with myself to relinquish the unlooked for benefit that has been thrown in my way. May I then flatter myself you will favour me so far? We assured him we should be extremely happy to see him; and referred him to Mr. Howard for the knowledge

of our abode, which is unknown to ourselves. We are strangers and foreigners in England, said I, and shall certainly be much pleased to meet again with our first English acquaintance. We then wished him an agreeable journey, and left the room.
When we had retired, this unknown expressed in warm terms to Mr. Howard his wishes for improving this accidental acquaintance, made many polite offers of service, and discovered his name at parting by presenting him with a card, on which was written the following address—the Honourable Charles Roatsley, St. James's Square. He then set off in a carriage and four at half past two in the morning.
Mr. Howard has persuaded us to remain all this day at Dover, and perhaps tomorrow, in order to recruit our spirits after our fatigue, and I have acquiesced because my sister is rather
