can for a moment doubt) in
the next pew to her at St. James's Church last Sunday; and the manner in
which he appeared to go to sleep during the sermon--though from under his
fringed eyelids it was evident he was casting glances of respectful
rapture towards Jocasta--deeply moved and interested her. On coming out of
church, he found his way to her chair, and made her an elegant bow as she
stepped into it. She saw him at Court afterwards, where he carried himself
with a most distinguished air, though none of her acquaintances knew his
name; and the next night he was at the play, where her ladyship was
pleased to acknowledge him from the side-box.

"During the whole of the comedy she racked her brains so to remember his
name, that she did not hear a word of the piece: and having the happiness
to meet him once more in the lobby of the playhouse, she went up to him in
a flutter, and bade him remember that she kept two nights in the week, and
that she longed to see him at Spring Garden.

"He appeared on Tuesday, in a rich suit, showing a very fine taste both in
the tailor and wearer; and though a knot of us were gathered round the
charming Jocasta, fellows who pretended to know every face upon the town,
not one could tell the gentleman's name in reply to Jocasta's eager
inquiries, flung to the right and left of her as he advanced up the room
with a bow that would become a duke.

"Jocasta acknowledged this salute with one of those smiles and curtsies of
which that lady hath the secret. She curtsies with a languishing air, as
if to say, 'You are come at last. I have been pining for you:' and then
she finishes her victim with a killing look, which declares: 'O Philander!
I have no eyes but for you.' Camilla hath as good a curtsy perhaps, and
Thalestris much such another look; but the glance and the curtsy together
belong to Jocasta of all the English beauties alone.

" 'Welcome to London, sir,' says she. 'One can see you are from the
country by your looks.' She would have said 'Epsom', or 'Tunbridge', had
she remembered rightly at which place she had met the stranger; but, alas!
she had forgotten.

"The gentleman said, 'he had been in town but three days; and one of his
reasons for coming hither was to have the honour of paying his court to
Jocasta.'

"She said, 'the waters had agreed with her but indifferently.'

" 'The waters were for the sick,' the gentleman said: 'the young and
beautiful came but to make them sparkle