manage him."

Now these fair critics, in raising their profound edifice of
domestic felicity, did not recollect that the corner-stone was
wanting, and that to receive good company with good cheer, the
means of the banquet ought to have been furnished by Sir Philip,
whose income (dilapidated as it was) was not equal to the display
of the hospitality required, and at the same time to the supply
of the good knight's MENUS PLAISIRS. So, in spite of all that
was so sagely suggested by female friends, Sir Philip carried his
good-humour everywhere abroad, and left at home a solitary
mansion and a pining spouse.

At length, inconvenienced in his money affairs, and tired even of
the short time which he spent in his own dull house, Sir Philip
Forester determined to take a trip to the Continent, in the
capacity of a volunteer. It was then common for men of fashion
to do so; and our knight perhaps was of opinion that a touch of
the military character, just enough to exalt, but not render
pedantic, his qualities as a BEAU GARCON, was necessary to
maintain possession of the elevated situation which he held in
the ranks of fashion.

Sir Philip's resolution threw his wife into agonies of terror; by
which the worthy baronet was so much annoyed, that, contrary to
his wont, he took some trouble to soothe her apprehensions, and
once more brought her to shed tears, in which sorrow was not
altogether unmingled with pleasure. Lady Bothwell asked, as a
favour, Sir Philip's permission to receive her sister and her
family into her own house during his absence on the Continent.