A Cool Proposition


AT the breaking up of a fashionable party at the west end of town, one

of the company said he was about to drop in at Lady Blessington's;

whereupon a young gentleman, a perfect stranger to the speaker, very

modestly said, O then, you can take me with you; I want very much to

know her, and you can introduce me. While the other was standing aghast

at the impudence of the proposal, and muttering something about being

but a slight acquaintance himself, etc., Sydney Smith observed, Pray

oblige our young friend; you can do it easily enough by introducing him

in a capacity very desirable at this close season of the year,--say you

are bringing with you the cool of the evening.



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