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We meet him every where. He honours our table-d'hote daily, where he stays an hour and a half to bait-after which we see him lounging in the carriage of some fair _compatriote_ with herself and daughters. If we are paying a morning visit, in he comes, "glissarding it" into the drawing-room, and bowing like a dancing-master; nor does he disdain to produce a small book of testimonials, in which the subscribers have agreed to give him a poetic _character_, and compare him to a torrent, to a nightingale, to an eagle, to an avalanche. They who love flattery as a bee loves honey, are all captivated, and almost make love to him. Their albums are rich in the spoils of his poetry, and she is happy who, by her blandishment, can detain him in conversation for five minutes. Yet they own they understand less than half of what he says. Vexed with _one_ to whom we were talking, we thought rationally, for permitting herself to be "so pestered by a popinjay,"-"He _is_ so clever," was the reply; "such an odd creature, too.
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