CHAPTER XIV.
"Will you come and spend a long day with me?"
Penalties of Friendship.
"Delightful and intellectual society."—False Concords.
"To all and singular in this full meeting,
Ladies and gallants, Phoebus sends you greeting;
From his more mighty sons, whose confidence
Is placed in lofty rhyme and humble sense,
Even to his little infants of the time
Who write new songs, and trust in tune and rhyme."
Dryden.
"Look you, friend, it is nothing to me whether you believe it or not; what I say is true."—Love for Love.
Of all places, London is the best for an incognita acquaintance; cards may be exchanged to all eternity without a meeting, and the various circles revolve like planets in their different systems, utterly unconscious of the means and modes of each other's existence. A friend, whom Emily had earnestly, though unsuccessfully, endeavoured to see, thanks to a headach of Lady Alicia's, found them at home. This was
