Our opinions and pursuits cannot be in common.

While women are formed by their education, and their education continues in its present state, tender hearts and misguided understandings are all that we can hope to meet with.
What are the character, age, and person of the woman to whom you allude?
and what prospect of success would attend my exertions to obtain her favour?
I have told you she is rich.

She is a widow, and owes her riches to the liberality of her husband, who was a trader of great opulence, and who died while on a mercantile adventure to Spain.

He was not unknown to you.

Your letters from Spain often spoke of him.