He adored that girl who had just gone out; he had broken her heart, he knew he had, by his conduct; he would marry her next morning at St.George's, Hanover Square; he'd knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth: he would, by Jove! and have him in readiness; and, acting on this hint, Captain Dobbin shrewdly induced him to leave the gardens and hasten to Lambeth Palace, and, when once out of the gates, easily conveyed Mr.
Jos Sedley into a hackney-coach, which deposited him safely at his lodgings.
George Osborne conducted the girls home in safety: and when the door was closed upon them, and as he walked across Russell Square, laughed so as to astonish the watchman.

Amelia looked very ruefully at her friend, as they went up stairs, and kissed her, and went to bed without any more talking.
"He must propose to-morrow," thought Rebecca.

"He called me his soul's darling, four times; he squeezed my hand in Amelia's presence.

He must propose to-morrow." And so thought Amelia, too.

And I dare say she thought of the dress she was to wear as bridesmaid, and of the presents which she should make to her nice little sister-in-law, and of a subsequent ceremony in which she herself might play a principal part, &c., and &c., and &c., and &c.
Oh, ignorant young creatures! How little do you know the effect of rack punch! What is the rack in the punch, at night, to the rack in the head of a morning?
To this truth I can vouch as a man; there is no headache in the world like that caused by Vauxhall punch.