set about it!_) "Approbativeness large; so we shall see him very anxious to gain the good opinion of others." (_When I don't care a straw what people say of me! Phrenology is bosh--absolute bosh!_) "Destructiveness small; this is not a gentleman who will do very much damage." (_Sighs of mock relief from Blazers._) "Nor is he, we should find, particularly combative." ... ("You 'aven't seen 'im of a Saturday night," _interrupts some vulgar brute_.) Psha!--I won't listen; regard the audience with calm reproach. What a face that is on the second bench! what a pair of brown eyes!--kind of eyes _Juliet_ must have had. ETHEL'S are light grey--what a serious, simple expression! She is not giggling, like all those fools--I could almost fancy she feels for me. How superior she seems to all the rest. ETHEL DERING herself could not look more exquisitely out of place. In fact, I am not sure that ETHEL would keep her countenance so well as this girl, who is bending forward with parted lips, and that sweet, interested light in her eyes.... I am getting sentimental. Was _Romeo_ ever "delineated"? Professor is summing me up--I may as well listen. * * * * * Illustration: July yet. * * * * * Illustration: Row me O! * * * * * Illustration: "Parting is such sweet sorrow." _Shakspeare._ * * * * * Illustration: "Here's for thy panes." _Shakspeare._ * * * * * "This is a gentleman of excellent business ability, and I should say he would be perfectly capable of managing a tolerably large business concern." ("Then how was it he got the sack from the 'am-and-beef shop?" _inquired one of the pests_.) "He is pushing and energetic, and he would get on well--even in a 'olesale business." (_He is growing absolutely fulsome!_) "If in business for himself, we shall not find him in a hurry to shut up his shop exactly at the hour of closing, if he thinks he could make more by keeping open a little longer." (_Considering that I am in Government employ, with a decided leaning to literary pursuits, which has not, as yet, met with much support--this is rather too much, but it would be snobbish, perhaps, to say anything._) "I may add," concludes the Professor, with the air of a man who is conceding somewhat, "that this gentleman would be qualified to succeed, would do very well, as an artistic decorator. Are there any questions you would like to ask?" Not after that--no, none; I haven't the heart to ask him if he thinks I could write even a creditable Nautical Drama! Besides, my faith in Phrenology is shaken. Let me get away--out of sight and hearing of these infernal Blazers.