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Dromios of the old drama? or was the vicinity of the Regent's Park
peopled with Cockney anglers--Thompsons whose daughters had
married Brownes?
The resemblance haunted me all night. I dreamt of Brownes and
Thompsons, and to freshen my fancy and sweep away the shapes by
which I was beset, I resolved to take a drive. Accordingly, I ordered my
little phaeton, and, perplexed and silent, bent my way to call upon my
fair friend, Miss Mortimer. Arriving at Queen's-bridge Cottage, I was
met in the rose-covered porch by the fair Frances. "Come this way, if
you please," said she, advancing towards the dining-room; "we are late
at luncheon to-day. My friend, Mrs. Browne, and her father, Mr.
Thompson, our old neighbours when we lived in Welbeck Street, have
been here for this week past, and he is so fond of fishing that he will
scarcely leave the river even to take his meals, although for aught I can
hear he never gets so much as a bite."

As she ceased to speak, we entered: and another Mr.
Thompson--another, yet the same, stood before me. It was not yet four
o'clock in the day, therefore of course the dress-coat and the brocade
waistcoat were wanting; but there was the man himself, Thompson the
third, wigged, whiskered, and eye-glassed, just as Thompson the first
might have tumbled into the water at General Dunbar's, or Thompson
the second have stood waiting for a nibble at Lady Margaret's. There he
sat evidently preparing to do the agreeable, to talk of music and of
poetry, of Grisi and Malibran, of "Ion" and "Paracelsus," to profess
himself a liberal Conservative, to give recipes for pates, and to fall
asleep over albums. It was quite clear that he was about to make this
display of his conversational abilities; but I could not stand it. Nervous
and mystified as the poor Frenchman in the memorable story of
"Monsieur Tonson," I instinctively followed his example, and fairly
fled the field.

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