Sharp beckoned me to sit by him in the back row.

These old fellows are so selfish.

"Always," said he, "establish yourself in the middle of the row against the wall; for, if you sit in the front or next the edges, you will be forced to give up your seat to the ladies who are standing." I had the gallantry to surrender mine to a damsel who had stood for a quarter of an hour; and I lounged into the ante-rooms, where I found Samuel Rogers.

Rogers and I sate together on a bench in one of the passages, and had a good deal of very pleasant conversation.

He was,--as indeed he has always been to me,--extremely kind, and told me that, if it were in his power, he would contrive to be at Holland House with me, to give me an insight into its ways.