progress at the astonishing rate of one couplet per day. The window-sill might do well enough for that.
THORNHILL.
But you think of former times, my friend; rhyming becomes easier by practice.
BRIGHTLY.
So it does, like all other things; and I dare say you can now write two couplets per day with no great difficulty.
THORNHILL.
Don't trouble thy head about my progress; let us set out on our visit to Sir Cameron. His mansion is scarcely a mile off, I am told. He is a kind-hearted fellow; he will be glad to see us.
BRIGHTLY.
Yes, if he do not take it into his head that we have some covert design in our visit.
THORNHILL.
Some covert design!
BRIGHTLY.
Ay; sounding his intentions as to standing for the county: propitiating his patronage for some itinerant artist or lecturer: introducing to his acquaintance some forward chaperon, with a troop of female cousins at her back, to invade the daily peace of his home. O dear! what will
