Though he was so glib in speaking about the farmers' daughters, he felt that he should have some little difficulty in making known his passion to Miss Dunstable by word of mouth.
"Yes; write a letter.

If she'll take you at all, she'll take you that way; half the matches going are made up by writing letters.

Write her a letter and get it put on her dressing-table." George said that he would, and so he did.
George spoke quite truly when he hinted that he had said a few soft things to Miss Dunstable.

Miss Dunstable, however, was accustomed to hear soft things.

She had been carried much about in society among fashionable people since, on the settlement of her father's will, she had been pronounced heiress to all the ointment of Lebanon; and many men had made calculations respecting her similar to those which were now animating the brain of the Honourable George de Courcy.