May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most particularly anxious to be married ?" This was such a singular question, that I asked him in return, "Is it so ?" "I don't know," said Herbert, "that's what I want to know.

Because it is decidedly the case with us.

My poor sister Charlotte, who was next me and died before she was fourteen, was a striking example.

Little Jane is the same.

In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.