It is the greatest amusement in the world! And after such success, you know!--Every body said that Mr.Weston would never marry again.

Oh dear, no! Mr.Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occupied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful--Mr.Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.

Oh no! Mr.
Weston certainly would never marry again.

Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.

All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.
"Ever since the day--about four years ago--that Miss Taylor and I met with him in Broadway Lane, when, because it began to drizzle, he darted away with so much gallantry, and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer Mitchell's, I made up my mind on the subject.