Does it surprise you that I am going to make a middle-class girl my actual, lawful wife?
Why do I do this?
you may ask.

Well, I have my own special reasons for it.

I am a bit of an oddity, you must know.

My father before me was an oddity, and so is every member of my family.

Now, I had resolved to marry, and my sweetheart was a small tradesman's daughter, who used to sing beautifully in church." Aha! the old story! "And marry her I would have done," continued the fluent dandy, "but the poor thing died.