e, stood before me. It was not yet four o'clock in the
day, therefore of course the dress-coat and the brocade waistcoat were
wanting; but there was the man himself, Thompson the third, wigged,
whiskered, and eye-glassed, just as Thompson the first might have
tumbled into the water at General Dunbar's, or Thompson the second have
stood waiting for a nibble at Lady Margaret's. There he sat evidently
preparing to do the agreeable, to talk of music and of poetry, of Grisi
and Malibran, of "Ion" and "Paracelsus," to profess himself a liberal
Conservative, to give recipes for pates, and to fall asleep over
albums. It was quite clear that he was about to make this display of
his conversational abilities; but I could not stand it. Nervous and
mystified as the poor Frenchman in the memorable story of "Monsieur
Tonson," I instinctively followed his example, and fairly fled the
field.

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