FRENCH OPINION potic and capricious master. And if her concernbe excessive for the annualvolun- tarY banishment of our men of taste from the centre of social delights, which she would wish,to see. converted into a circle never ending, still beginning ;" had this lady never further heard of such places as Bath, or Tunbridge, or Brighton, or any other of those numberless fell- eitous resources, those supplemental re- laXations, those by-reliefs of the ennui of retreat, which always stand ready to intercept the speed of the fashionable exile, and to break the fall betwedn the London and the country home ? But if even the fact were as desperate as she intimates, the self-imposed relega- tion would not be likely to produce the effect she deprecates. This lady, born herselfto excel in polished society, regrets this injurious retreat, chiefly becauSe it interrupts the brilliant ifitercourSeof the metropolis, and causes conversation to stiffer so tedious and melancholy a susPen-
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