I et 'em, and
sacrafised myself for her dear sayk.
"I may stayt here that in privit convasations with old Lord B. and his
son, I had mayd my proposals for Hangelina, and was axepted, and hoped
soon to be made the appiest gent in Hengland.
"'You must break the matter gently to her,' said her hexlent father.
'You have my warmest wishes, my dear Mr. De la Pluche, and those of my
Lady Bareacres; but I am not--not quite certain about Lady Angelina's
feelings. Girls are wild and romantic. They do not see the necessity of
prudent establishments, and I have never yet been able to make Angelina
understand the embarrassments of her family. These silly creatures prate
about love and a cottage, and despise advantages which wiser heads than
theirs know how to estimate.'
"'Do you mean that she aint fassanated by me?' says I, bursting out at
this outrayjus ideer.
"'She WILL be, my dear sir. You have already pleased her,--your
admirable manners must succeed in captivating her, and a fond father's
wishes will be crowned on the day in which you enter our family.'
"'Recklect, gents,' says I to the 2 lords,--'a barging's a barging--I'll
pay hoff Southdown's Jews, when I'm his brother. As a STRAYNGER'--(this
I said in a sarcastickle toan)--'I wouldn't take such a LIBBATY.
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