y press this point? You can't suppose that you
will be happy with a person like me?'

"'I adoar you, charming gal!' says I. 'Never, never go to say any such
thing.'

"'You adored Mary Ann first,' answers her ladyship; 'you can't keep your
eyes off her now. If any man courts her you grow so jealous that you
begin beating him. You will break the girl's heart if you don't marry
her, and perhaps some one else's--but you don't mind THAT.'

"'Break yours, you adoarible creature! I'd die first! And as for Mary
Hann, she will git over it; people's arts aint broakn so easy. Once for
all, suckmstances is changed betwigst me and er. It's a pang to part
with her' (says I, my fine hi's filling with tears), 'but part from her
I must.'

"It was curius to remark abowt that singlar gal, Lady Hangelina, that
melumcolly as she was when she was talking to me, and ever so disml--yet
she kep on laffing every minute like the juice and all.

"'What a sacrifice!' says she; 'it's like Napoleon giving up Josephine.
What anguish it must cause to your susceptible heart!'

"'It does,' says I--'Hagnies!' (Another laff.)

"'And if--if I don't accept you--you will invade the States of the
Emperor, my papa, and I am to be made the sacrifice and the occasion of
peace between you!'

"'I don't know what you're eluding to about Joseyfeen and Hemperors your
Pas; but I know that your Pa's estate is over hedaneers morgidged; that
if some one don't elp him, he's no better than an old pawper; that he
owes me a lot of money; and that I'm the man that can sell him up hoss
& foot; or set him up agen--THAT'S what I know, Lady Hangelina,' says
I, with a hair as much as to say, 'Put THAT in your ladyship's pipe and
smoke it.'

"And so I left her, and nex day a serting fashnable paper enounced--

"'MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--We hear that a matrimonial union is on the
tapis between a gentleman who has made a colossal fortune in the Railway
World, and the only daughter of a noble earl, whose estates are situated
in D-ddles-x. An early day is fixed for this interesting event.'"

"Contry to my expigtations (but when or ow can we reckn upon the fealinx
of wimming?) Mary Hann didn't seem to be much efected by the hideer of
my marridge with Hangelinar. I was rayther disapinted peraps that the
fickle young gal reckumsiled herself so easy to give me hup, for we
Gents are creechers of vannaty after all, as well as those of the hopsit
secks; and betwigst you and me th