- ledge;—but there comes your friend
Sir Joseph, shall we go and meet him?" "Not at present," said the Doctor, "being engaged very particularly on the other side of the town." Sir Edward now joined the other baronet, and after the common salutations, "I have just parted with your friend, Dr. Scribble." "My friend!" returned Sir Joseph, "I do not know him;—I know there is such a man, and that he pretends to be a kind of an antiquarian." "I thought you had been extremely intimate," said Sir Edward. "Oh no, I have not the least acquaintance with the man." Not long after the baronet was joined by our hero, and communicated the discourse that had passed between him and Dr. Scribble. Our hero was amused by the oratorial propositions of this learned person; but soon forgot the doctor and all his concerns, in subjects that concerned himself
