The rumour circulated that Sir Austin Feverel, the recluse of Raynham, the rank misogynist, the rich baronet, was in town, looking out a bride for his only son and uncorrupted heir.

Doctor Benjamin Bairam was the excellent authority.

Doctor Bairam had safely delivered Mrs.Deborah Gossip of this interesting bantling, which was forthwith dandled in dozens of feminine laps.

Doctor Bairam could boast the first interview with the famous recluse.

He had it from his own lips that the object of the baronet was to look out a bride for his only son and uncorrupted heir; "and," added the doctor, "she'll be lucky who gets him." Which was interpreted to mean, that he would be a catch; the doctor probably intending to allude to certain extraordinary difficulties in the way of a choice.
A demand was made on the publisher of The Pilgrim's Scrip for all his outstanding copies.