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It was now his business to marry an heiress He ell aware that it was so, and was quite prepared to face his destiny But he lacked so love He was beautiful, had theof audacity, and had no feeling of repugnance at declaring a passion which he did not feel But he knew so little of the passion, that he could hardly irl believe that he felt it When he talked of love, he not only thought that he was talking nonsense, but showed that he thought so Fro lady reputed to have £40,000, who had refused him because, as she naively said, she knew 'he did not really care' 'How can I show that I careto make you my wife?' he had asked 'I don't know that you can, but all the sa lady escaped the pitfall

Now there was another young lady, to whom the reader shall be introduced in ti diligence Her wealth was not defined, as had been the £40,000 of her predecessor, but was known to be very enerally supposed to be fathoard to money for ordinary expenditure, money for houses, servants, horses, jewels, and the like, one su lady He had great concerns;--concerns so great that the payment of ten or twenty thousand pounds upon any trifle was the sa to him,--as to men who are comfortable in their circumstances it matters little whether they pay sixpence or ninepence for their mutton chops Such a man may be ruined at any tihter during the present season of his outrageous prosperity he could give a very large fortune indeed Lady Carbury, who had known the rock on which her son had been once wrecked, was very anxious that Sir Felix should at once make a proper use of the inti Croesus of the day

And now there must be a feords said about Henrietta Carbury Of course she was of infinitely less importance than her brother, as a baronet, the head of that branch of the Carburys, and her ; and, therefore, a feords should suffice She also was very lovely, being like her brother; but soular But she had in her countenance a full measure of that sweetness of expression which seems to imply that consideration of self is subordinated to consideration for others This sweetness was altogether lacking to her brother