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You must certainly go there , and you must permit me besides to do the honours of the ceety and send you a ticket . I am a thorough believer in a young man being a young man -- but no more drovers or rovers , if you love me ! Talking of which puts me in mind that you may be short of partners at the Assembly -- O , I have been young myself ! -- and if ye care to come to anything so portentously tedious as a tea-party at the house of a bachelor lawyer , consisting mainly of his nieces and nephews , and his grand-nieces and grand-nephews , and his wards , and generally the whole clan of the descendants of his clients , you might drop in to-night towards seven o'clock . I think I can show you one or two that are worth looking at , and you can dance with them later on at the Assembly . '' He proceeded to give me a sketch of one or two eligible young ladies whom I might expect to meet . `` And then there 's my parteecular friend , Miss Flora , '' said he .