day, for I want to look in at Conyers, and ask him about that trout stream."
"Well Sir! I'm sorry you're so pushed, but I do wish you'd come in some day quite promiscuous. You said you would, for I want your opinion of some port wine I'm going to take with a friend."
"So I will with the greatest pleasure, but I'm not at all a good judge of port, it's too heavy for me; I'd sooner taste your ale."
"Ah! it's the fashion of you young squires to cry down port wine; but depend upon't, it's the real stuff. We never should have beat the French, if it hadn't been for their poor sour wines. That's my maxim."
"Shall you dine at the Château to-day?"
"Why you see the Markiss makes such a point of it, that I can't well be off. And the county should be kept together sometimes.—That's the ground I go upon."
"Oh! do come—you must come—we can't
