Well, I don't know that you are far wrong." "Why, then, if I may make so bold, Captain Fizgig, are you always at her heels ?" "Mr.Titmarsh," says the Captain, "I owe twenty thousand pounds;" and he went back to the house directly, and proposed for her.
I thought this rather cruel and unprincipled conduct on the gentleman's part; for he had been introduced to the family by Mr.Tidd, with whom he had been at school, and had supplanted Tidd entirely in the great heiress's affections.

Brough stormed, and actually swore at his daughter (as the Captain told me afterwards) when he heard that the latter had accepted Mr.Fizgig; and at last, seeing the Captain, made him give his word that the engagement should be kept secret for a few months.

And Captain F.only made a confidant of me, and the mess, as he said: but this was after Tidd had paid his twenty thousand pounds over to our governor, which he did punctually when he came of age.

The same day, too, he proposed for the young lady, and I need not say was rejected.
Presently the Captain's engagement began to be whispered about: all his great relations, the Duke of Doncaster, the Earl of Cinqbars, the Earl of Crabs, &c.

came and visited the Brough family; the Hon.