the Mr. Bankes
you mention though not to that "extreme" you seem to think, but I am flattered by his "boasting" on such a subject (as you say), for I never thought him likely to "boast" of any thing which was not his own. I am not "
melancholish
"—pray what "
folk
" dare to say any such thing? I must contradict them by being
merry
at their expence.