AN AWKWARD MEETING.
Some time after, with a sudden recollection, he eagerly exclaimed, “O, I knew I had something I wished to tell you! I was the other day at a place to see Stuart’s Athenian architecture, and whom do you think I met in the room?”
I could not guess.
“Nay, ’tis precisely what you will like—Mr. Hastings!”
“Indeed!” cried I, laughing; “I must own I am extremely glad to hear it. I only wish you could both meet without either knowing the other.”
“Well, we behaved extremely well, I assure you; and looked each as if we had never seen one another before. I determined to let you know it.”...