THE EARL OF CRABS." "Hang her ladyship!" says my master, "what care I for it ?" As for the old lord who'd been so afishous in his kindness and advice, master recknsiled that pretty well, with thinking that his lordship knew he was going to marry ten thousand a year, and igspected to get some share of it; for he roat back the following letter to his father, as well as a flaming one to Miss: "Thank you, my dear father, for your kindness in that awkward business.
You know how painfully I am situated just now, and can pretty well guess BOTH THE CAUSES of my disquiet.

A marriage with my beloved Matilda will make me the happiest of men.

The dear girl consents, and laughs at the foolish pretensions of her mother-in-law.

To tell you the truth, I wonder she yielded to them so long.

Carry your kindness a step further, and find for us a parson, a license, and make us two into one.