He had enough on his hands, so he wrote her a cheque and, with a
courtesy which must have made Sappho quite desperate, put her out of the
room.
We forgot to say that the name of the new journal was 'The New World.'
The new world is not quite so big as the universe, but then it is as
large as all the other quarters of the globe together. The worst of this
business was, 'The Universe' protested that the Duke of St. James, like
a second Canning, had called this 'New World' into existence, which was
too bad, because, in truth, he deprecated its discovery scarcely less
than the Venetians.
Having thus managed, in the course of a few weeks, to achieve the
reputation of an unrivalled roue, our hero one night betook himself to
Almack's, a place where his visits, this season, were both shorter and
less frequent.
Many an anxious mother gazed upon him, as he passed, with an eye which
longed to pierce futurity; many an agitated maiden looked exquisitely
unembarrassed, while her fluttering memory feasted on the sweet thought
that, at any rate, another had not captured this unrivalled prize.
Perhaps she might be the Anson to fall upon this galleon.
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