The appointed hour found all ready, and M'Carty More, that noble _savage_ before-mentioned, who claims to be king of the boatmen, was the first object that we beheld on issuing from our _malapardis_. This man is quite a character, and so strikingly fine a specimen of rude, but manly beauty, that were he a little less weather-beaten, he might stand for a Hercules to Canova, were he alive again, or to Chauntry. His _calling_ renders him quite familiar with his superiors, and he takes the command of his party as a pilot does of the ship, _pro tempore_. Mrs. Fitzroy, whose animation is very inspiriting, and whose enthusiasm I told you in a former despatch is glowing for the Irish character, chose him for her _Cicerone_, and, taking him by the arm, led the van towards the scene of embarkation. If you wish to know, as that mad-cap Melville used to say, "who and who were together," you may _enfilade_ us as follows. Next to M'Carty More and Mrs. Fitzroy marched my aunt, leaning on the arm of Frederick, who, I believe, in the midst of all the beauty that Circassia could boast, and all the fashion that London and Paris exhibit, would still be found his mother's prop: on her left side Bentley the elder with his hands tight in his breeches pockets, as though he feared that their contents were going to fly away, _paddled_ along, with unequal steps. Mr. Otway took charge of Emily; and I observed that a simultaneous movement of that slow and fearful nature that scarcely indicates design, incited at the same identical moment Bentley the younger and Annesley to wish that the disengaged hand of my cousin were safely lodged under the protective care of a right arm belonging to them, though neither had courage to step forward and offer himself as a candidate for the honour to which both aspired. Moreover I made a second observation; and though these sapient remarks were formed _in transitu_ from the threshhold of the inn to the street, I'll be sworn that I am right. "But what was your second observation?" quoth you. Why, it was, that the _mauvaise honte_ which prevented our rival _beaux_ from interfering with Mr. Otway's exclusive possession of the fair one's attention, arose from different causes, and produced different effects in the minds of the disappointed knights. Annesley's timidity lay in his breast, where, if he has made the confession to himself, he has truly said that Emily's is the character, of all he has ever seen, which comes nearest to his abstract of perfection in woman. On this _beau idéal_ I have heard him dilate, and thus far can decide upon his feelings. _He_ then was moved by an incipient desire to improve acquaintance, and secure a sort of prescriptive right to be Emily's _particular_ in our wanderings by "wood and lake;" but the thought, though proceeding from preference established since the day of his arrival, was an _impromptu_ of the instant in its present shape, and the reality of the sentiment which