, and every day proves it. He is, perhaps, a little opinionated, as all men who are the

centre

of

circles

, wide or narrow—the Sir Oracles, in whose name two or three are gathered together—must be, and as even Johnson was; but, withal, a valuable man, and less vain than success and even the consciousness of preferring "the right to the expedient" might excuse.

To-morrow there is a party of

purple

at the "blue" Miss Berry's. Shall I go? um!—I don't much affect your blue-bottles;—but one ought to be civil. There will be, "I guess now" (as the Americans say), the Staels and Mackintoshes—good—the —— s and —— s—not so good—the —— s, etc., etc.—good for nothing.

[Perhaps]

that blue-winged Kashmirian butterfly of book-learning