story if you please, sir." "Carolino and Athalia meet at the gate of the Mary-le-bone burying-ground, by the light of the moon, and they embrace one another with the warmest affection, and reciprocate the sweet strains of love; when a watchman, almost at their ears, calls past twelve o'clock." Here the author observed, "I did not know, sir, how to bring in a lion, because them kind of beastesses are not to be found in the fields; but only at Exeter Change, and the Tower." "Why, my fair friend, you observe probability much better than many of your sister novelists, and perhaps a watchman might occur to your fancy as a more probable intruder into such a tender scene than a lion." "Oh yes, sir, but let us go on." "The lovers, to escape the questions of the watchman, cross the New Road into the fields near the Jews Harp. For several months the fond lo-
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