And so we came out of this controversy rather victoriously; but I began to alter my preconceived ideas of rural felicity.
Notes.
(1) I have since heard that this aristocratic lady's father was a livery-button maker in St.Martin's Lane: where he met with misfortunes, and his daughter acquired her taste for heraldry.

But it may be told to her credit, that out of her earnings she has kept the bed-ridden old bankrupt in great comfort and secrecy at Pentonville; and furnished her brother's outfit for the Cadetship which her patron, Lord Swigglebiggle, gave her when he was at the Board of Control.

I have this information from a friend.

To hear Miss Wirt herself, you would fancy that her Papa was a Rothschild, and that the markets of Europe were convulsed when he went into the GAZETTE..