The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb

ening with a young friend, who had just quitted a public school in London, and was come to pass one nigh

some months-and it was probable, a much longer ti

invitation. This was to have been an important evening. But Elinor soon re

lf, whatever you may determine upon, Allan-I

, will yo

sorry to be spared the aukwardness of introducing two persons to each other, b

and Rosamund must love Elinor-but there were also times in which he

house, where his bodily semblance was visiting-his friend could not h

eir last meeting, what his feelings were on leaving school, the probable time when they should meet again, and a hundred natural questions which friend

ter his departure, sat down to compose a doleful sonnet about a "faithless friend."-I do not find