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THINKS-I-TO-MYSELF.

SERIO-LUDICRO, TRAGICO-COMICO

TALE,

WRITTEN BY

THINKS-I-TO-MYSELF

WHO?

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

FIFTH EDITION.

London:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEFLY, AND JONES, 20,
PATERNOSTER ROW; J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY;

AND J. ASPERNE, CORNHILL

By Law, and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.

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NOT long after the visit described in the former volume, and the writing of the poem, I strolled down to the Vicarage, thinking in my own mind that, I would soon muster up courage, to disclose to Emily the situation of my heart. While I was there, my mother and sister Icalled, and, quite unexpectedly, to me, proposed taking Emily home in the carrriage to pass three or four days at the Hall; bump, bump, hump, bump, went my poor heart directly the invitation was accepted, and, she actually returned

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with them.-I went on to 'Mrs. Fidget's, with a message from my mother, rejoicing all the way of course at the thoughts of finding Emily at the Hall on my return.

Now I suppose, that any body who never had my complaint, would naturally conclude, that all the time Emily staid at Grumblethorpe, I was particularly lively and gay; exerted all my talents to amuse her and engage her attention;-nothing of the kind!-I was ten times more shy of her than of Miss Twist :-if I spoke to her upon the most common occasion, it was always under some embarrassment, and if I attempted at any time to be witty and facetious, nothing could possibly exceed the nonsense that came out of my mouth, so that at last I began seriously to think of laying aside that organ of speech, and of talking to her merely with my eyes with the latter, I

felt far more capable of discoursing with her, and had no reason to think such ocular language was very unintelligible to her; had she had but confidence and assurance enough to answer me, (which, however, I liked her only the better for not having) I make no doubt but that the exact state of both our hearts might have been made known to each other without the utterance of letter, syllable, word, or sentence.

One evening, during her stay, the Twists came.-I believe they wondered to see the companion my sister had chosen.-Nothing could exceed the assurance with which Miss Twist appeared to make me her own; had she had a spark of real love for me, she would have been more diffident, as I knew by my own feelings. While we were amusing ourselve all together with charades, riddles, thread-paper verses, and other

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