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the company of ladies and gentlemen." Having delivered this embassy, our hero departed. Blossom having shut the door assumed a very valiant face, and said to Clump, "Did you ever hear so insolent a fellow as this messenger? Hamilton they call him: it was with difficulty I could keep my passion. Did not you remark how red and angry my face looked?" "No, I thought it was rather pale, please your honour, and whitish as it were." "But did not you see me even trembling with rage?" "O yes, when he spoke about the cane in the public room, your honour did tremble." "I think I will run after him yet," said the esquire, clapping himself on a chair, "to teach him to talk so to a man of my consequence: but now that I think of it, I cannot well go out as my head is tied up. I believe it will be as well to avoid the cold and keep quiet to-day,