The things we do!

"Why shall I break off with the finest girl in
England--and the best-plucked one, and the cleverest and wittiest, and
the most beautiful creature, by Jove, that ever stepped, for no fault of
hers, and because her sister-in-law leaves her brother, who I know
treated her infernally? We have talked this matter over at home before. I
wouldn't dine with the fellow; though he was always asking me; nor meet,
except just out of civility, any of his confounded family. Lady Anne is
different. She is a lady, she is. She is a good woman: and Kew is a most
respectable man, though he is only a peer of George III.'s creation, and
you should hear how he speaks of Miss Newcome, though she refused him. I
should like to know who is to prevent me marrying Lady Anne Newcome's
daughter?"
"By Jove, you are a good-plucked fellow, Farintosh--give me your hand,
old boy," says Henchman.
"Heh! am I? You would have said, give me your hand, old boy, whichever
way I determined, Hench! I tell you, I ain't intellectual, and that sort
of thing.


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