Miss Dorothea Wentworth had read one of his sermons which had been printed "by request," and became deeply interested in the young author, whom she had never seen.

Out of this circumstance grew a correspondence, an interview, a declaration, a matrimonial alliance, and a family of half a dozen children.

Wentworth Langdon, Esquire, was the oldest of these, and lived in the old family-mansion.

Unfortunately, that principle of the diminution of estates by division, to which I have referred, rendered it somewhat difficult to maintain the establishment upon the fractional income which the proprietor received from his share of the property.

Wentworth Langdon, Esq., represented a certain intermediate condition of life not at all infrequent in our old families.