Fanny says she knows all about them--that she has the Whitloes all at her fingers' ends.

You see she is as bright as ever.

It is a capital match.

Mr.Whitloe has at least five thousand dollars a year from his business now; and his aunt, Patience Doolittle, widow of the old merchant, who has no children, is understood to prefer him to all her relations.

Laura will have a little something; so there could be nothing better.