MR.

O'LEARY'S SECOND LOVE.
"You may easily suppose," began Mr.O'Leary, "that the unhappy termination of my first passion served as a shield to me for a long time against my unfortunate tendencies towards the fair; and such was really the case.

I never spoke to a young lady for three years after, without a reeling in my head, so associated in my mind was love and sea-sickness.
However, at last what will not time do.

It was about four years from the date of this adventure, when I became so, from oblivion of my former failure, as again to tempt my fortune.

My present choice, in every way unlike the last, was a gay, lively girl, of great animal spirits, and a considerable turn for raillery, that spared no one; the members of her own family were not even sacred in her eyes; and her father, a reverend dean, as frequently figured among the ludicrous as his neighbours.
"The Evershams had been very old friends of a rich aunt of mine, who never, by the by, had condescended to notice me till I made their acquaintance; but no sooner had I done so, than she sent for me, and gave me to understand that in the event of my succeeding to the hand of Fanny Eversham, I should be her heir, and the possessor of about sixty thousand pounds.