'
"It was curius to remark abowt that singlar gal, Lady Hangelina, that
melumcolly as she was when she was talking to me, and ever so disml--yet
she kep on laffing every minute like the juice and all.
"'What a sacrifice!' says she; 'it's like Napoleon giving up Josephine.
What anguish it must cause to your susceptible heart!'
"'It does,' says I--'Hagnies!' (Another laff.)
"'And if--if I don't accept you--you will invade the States of the
Emperor, my papa, and I am to be made the sacrifice and the occasion of
peace between you!'
"'I don't know what you're eluding to about Joseyfeen and Hemperors your
Pas; but I know that your Pa's estate is over hedaneers morgidged; that
if some one don't elp him, he's no better than an old pawper; that he
owes me a lot of money; and that I'm the man that can sell him up hoss
& foot; or set him up agen--THAT'S what I know, Lady Hangelina,' says
I, with a hair as much as to say, 'Put THAT in your ladyship's pipe and
smoke it.'
"And so I left her, and nex day a serting fashnable paper enounced--
"'MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--We hear that a matrimonial union is on the
tapis between a gentleman who has made a colossal fortune in the Railway
World, and the only daughter of a noble earl, whose estates are situated
in D-ddles-x.
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