 coach, which entreaty.

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Lady Hazard seconded with all her eloquence.—Upon this the lady's footman from the lobby summoned the coach to the door, and my lord having very politely seen her into it, returned with an intention to join Lady Hazard. In his way he encountered one of the gentlemen he had seen in the box, who accosted him with
'I must thank you Sir for the civility you have done me.'
'Sir,' answered Lord Hazard, with great politeness, 'if you mean in respect to any attention shewn to the lady, it was but my duty, and I am already thanked.'
'I dare say you are,' replied the other, 'but that won't go down with me: In short, you are a scoundrel, and I insist upon deciding the matter immediately: it can be done in this tavern.'—
'Sir,' said Lord Hazard, very spiritedly, 'I do not think myself obliged to answer so unprovoked and rude an assault, but as every thing in your appearance, except this insult, calls you gentleman, I attend you Sir.'

At this moment Standfast, who had been at the other theatre, and had, by promise, returned to go home with Lord Hazard, came up, and boldly enquired who it was that dared to insult that nobleman?—upon which, a crowd having gathered about, the cry was
'settle it in the tavern—settle it in the tavern.'
There they now adjourned, but not before

Lord Hazard had dispatched Standfast to his lady, to request that she would stay, for that he should be immediately with her.

When they were come to the place of explanation, Lord Hazard was more at a loss than ever.—The gentleman who had insulted him, brought against him a direct accusation of carrying on a clandestine correspondence with his sister, which he said was doubly dishonourable, as she was at the point of marriage to a worthy young baronet.
This charge was parried by a declaration that, till the present evening, the lord had never seen the lady; but the brother treated this excuse with contempt, and was for fighting it out instantly, mixing his invectives with some insinuations about a masquerade. The company, however, opposed his warmth; and the clamour was so various and violent, that nothing distinctly could be understood. It was therefore determined, as with one voice, that the affair should not then be decided; but, as it seemed a matter of delicacy, the disputants should privately
