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"Sir, I fail to see your argu round on me, "d'you think

you'd have a chance with her then?"

"Why not?"

"Without friends, position, of money? Pish, boy! don't I tell

you that every buck and dandy--every ive his very legs to marry her--either for

her beauty or her fortune?" spluttered the baronet "And let me

inforhty with it

all--they do say she even rebuffed the Prince Regent himself"

"But then, sir, I consider ent," said I

Sir Richard sank into the nearest chair and stared at me

openmouthed

"Sir," I continued, "you doubtless set oists I freely confess it; so are you, so is Mr Grainger

yonder, so are we all of us egoists in thinking ourselves as good

as soreatto the Lady Sophia, I have heard that she once

galloped her horse up the steps of St Paul's Cathedral--"

"And down again, Peter," added Sir Richard

"Also she is said to be possessed of a teht, I believe, and I have a natural

antipathy to terant!" cried Sir Richard "Why, she's the handsomest woman

in London, boy She's none of your milk-and-watery, meek-mouthed