"Your affectionate son,

"ALFRED PERCY.

"P.S. Yes, my dear Rosamond, I _shall_ be obliged to you for the
flower-roots for my landlady's daughter."


LETTER FROM ERASMUS TO HIS FATHER.

"MY DEAR FATHER,

"Pray do not feel disappointed when I tell you that I am not getting
on quite so fast as I expected. I assure you, however, that I have not
neglected any honourable means of bringing myself into notice. But it is
very difficult for a young man to rise without puffing, or using low means.

"I met Lady Jane Granville a few days ago. She gave me a note to Sir Amyas
Courtney, a fashionable physician and a great favourite of hers.--She told
me that he had formerly been acquainted with some of my family, and she so
strongly urged me to wait upon him, that to avoid offending her ladyship, I
promised to avail myself of her introduction.

"I called several times before I found Sir Amyas at home. At last, by
appointment, I went to breakfast with him one morning when he was confined
to the house by an _influenza_. He received me in the most courteous
manner--recollected to have danced with my mother years ago, at a ball
at Lord Somebody's--professed the greatest respect for the name of
Percy--asked me various questions about my grandfather, which I could not
answer, and paid you more compliments than I can remember. Sir Amyas is