OLIVER aOhI)8MITHrt UFE ANI'» TIMKJ*. H».«* I 1757. very for removed from the usher but tlitit much fninilmrity JM. subsisted between them. Ho was weak, but good U'mpmul, and one of Goldsmith's jokeH hntl for it« objtrt to t'«ru him of a hopeless passion with which a pretty warrant girl in lh« neighbourhood had inspired him. Thw youthful Phillm seems to have rather nuddonly quitted wrviou tttul #»i»» buck to her homo in Yorknhire, leaving behind IUT » nort of bit IF* promise that she would some day wiul William n l<4trr; which everybody but William of cnurac km»w wiin wiily IUT good-natured way of getting rid of importunity: 1«% hetwtwts having a fixed persuasion tlmt the letttn* w»ul«l roriw, i«vi»ry morning would watch the postman as ho pitiwt!, fttitl tun-nnui at last so wretched with diBappointmtmt tbnt lii»ltl«mttlj good-naturedly devised an attempt to cure tbo«i» expectations. In a servant-girFa hand ebiborntuly ii and with such language and spelling m woitld oxnrtly bit «»lf the longed-for letter out of Yorkshire (" the Etwly wbu t*»l*t "metho anecdote," interjiosoH the narrator, "KIIW it twfnrr* <{ it was sent"), GoldHinith prepared wt epiRtlo fr«»«t tlilllfj* which was to convey to William, in effort, that ulw )mt! f«*r various IOOHOHH delayed writing, but WIIH now t«> inform htm that a young man, by trade a glaHH-gritidor,. wait addresses to her, that she had not given him encouragement but her relations were strongly fur tlw match, that she, however, often thought of William, Hint must conclude by saying that something rotmt now b<» dom« one way or another, &c.