ffers_ From Females of _The Highest Rank_ Since my
Truely Wonderful Good fortune got Talked About every Where but have
_Refused Them All_ for _y^r sake_, And Would All the World But you.
When I Saw You on Horseback It was All my Sudden confusion In
Seeing you (the Other Gent. was One of my Resp^e Solicitors) w^h
Threw Me off in that Ridiculous Way w^h was a Great Mortification
And made My brute Of A horse _go on so_, For I Remembered You and
was Wonderful struck _with Your Improv'd Appearance_ (As that Same
Gent. can Testify) And you was (Hon^d. Miss) Quite Wrong _To
Night_ when You Spoke so Uncommon Angry To Me, seeing If I Had Only
Known What Female It Was (meaning _yourself which I respect So_)
out so Late Alone I should Have spoke quite Different So hope You
Will think Nothing More Of that Truely _Unpleasant Event_ Now
(Hon^d. Madam) What I have to say Is if You will Please to
Condescend To Yield To My Desire We Can Live Most uncommon
Comfortable at Yatton Together w^h Place shall Have Great Pleasure
(if _you_ please) in _Marrying You From_ and I may (_perhaps_) Do
Something handsome for y^r. respectable Brother and Family, w^h can
Often Come to see us And Live in the Neighborhood, if You Refuse
me, Will not say What shall Happen to _Those_ which (am Told) _Owe
me a Precious Long Figure_ w^h May (_perhaps_) Make a Handsome
Abatement in, if You And I _Hit it_.

"Hoping You Will Forget What Have So Much Griev^d. me, And Write
p^t. return of Post,

"Am,
"hon^d. Miss
"Y^r. most Loving & Devoted Servant
"(Till Death)
TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE.
"PARTICULAR Private."

This exquisitely constructed document its accomplished writer sealed
twice, and then left, together with sixpence, in the hands of the
landlady of the Hare and Hounds, to be delivered at Yatton Hall the
first thing in the morning. The good woman, however--having no
particular wish to oblige such a strange puppy, whom she was only too
glad to get rid of, and having moreover a good deal to attend to--laid
the letter aside on the chimney-piece, and entirely lost sight of it for
nearly a fortnight. Shortly after the lamentable tidings concerning the
impending misfortunes of the Aubrey family had been communicated to the
inhabitants of Grilston, she forwarded the letter, (little dreaming of