both wife and husband being, for some time, loud in their praises, which were somewhat extravagant! "It was a divine sermon--St Paul could not have preached a better"--when the good man hopes it may, by God's blessing, do good, politely acknowledges the compliment implied in our regrets that we had not been of the auditory, and then rises to look round, Signor B---- doing the honours, at the curiosities of the shop; at the sight of several objects of virtù, he expresses, somewhat naïvely, great pleasure--would like to have seen more, but has another sermon to deliver in St Jacomo--the bell is ringing!--he must say _idio_ at once. As he makes his exit, (Madame kisses his hand first,) two other visitors present themselves; the one a young Roman, who comes to console her; the other a young English nobleman, who comes to buy in haste, and will have to repent at leisure afterwards. In five minutes, Madame seems to have entirely forgotten her sister; B---- his wife! The one is receiving comfort in compliment; the other, in cash! Hush! Surely we heard Lord A---- ask if that vamped old vase, which will fall some day to pieces, was _antique_; and B----assert that it was! Why, the paint is scarcely dry on its sides! Lord A----'s unlucky eye lights upon a bust, which, when he gets it over to England, he may match at the stone-mason's in the New Road, and at half-price--_two_ words, _three_ syllables, and the purchase is made "_Chi?_" Whose bust is it? "Cicero's," of course! "Quanto," what's the price of it? "Twenty Napoleons!" You old rogue B----! you are safe in sending it to Terny's, _packed_; for, if it should be seen, you might have to refund the purchase-money. _Necdum finitus?_ Another bust tempts him; he inquires, and finds it is a _Jove_--a Jove! and is "Jupiter, hæc nec labra moves, quum mittere vocem Debueras, vel _marmoreus_, vel aheneus? ... Quod nullum discrimen habendum est Effigies inter vestras, statuamque Bathylli?" And this too, he buys for twenty Napoleons more; and having paid the purchase-money, away goes the possessor of Jupiter, and at the same juncture away goes the Cavaliere--each perfectly satisfied with his visit.