“Send for your luggage, and be my guest.”
“No; I have taken lodgings that suit me. I am formed for solitude.”
“While you stay here, you will, however, go into the world.”
“Yes, I have some letters of introduction, and I hear that the English can honour merit, even in an Italian.”
“You hear the truth, and it will amuse you, at least, to see our eminent men. They will receive you most hospitably. Let me assist you as a cicerone.”
“Oh, your valuable time!”
“Is at your disposal: but where are you going?”
“It is Sunday, and I have had my curiosity excited to hear a celebrated preacher—Mr. ———, who they tell me, is now more talked of than any author in London.”
“They tell you truly—I will go with you—I myself have not yet heard him, but proposed to do so this very day.”
“Are you not jealous of a man so much spoken of?”