Do you wonder that I am still a bachelor?
I will not go on, relating circumstances in my life which have too much resemblance to each other.

It would only be a repetition of my miserable blunders.

But I will make a proposition to young ladies in general.

I am well-to-do; the store is in a most flourishing condition; I have but one serious fault, and you all know what that is.

Now, will not some of you take pity on me?
I might be waylaid, blindfolded, lifted into a carriage, and abducted.