Authorship a Tale

Very fair–but I would not have you suppose, reader–my dear fellow–that I said to the girl in question all that I have said here. By no means–for long and long before I had come to the words, No no, my girl, the maxim though true enough is a very bad one for you and such as you, I had pitched myself head-foremost into my gig, without observing that another, a very superb one, was at the door, and that somebody was standing at the large window who–if I had caught a glimpse of her before I was fairly off, would have put a stop to my speech for ever–if not to me.