as explicit, my good fellow; but I have no such
marvellous adventures to relate, and not such a fortunate wind up. I
have been to Bath, to Cheltenham, to Harrogate, to Brighton, and
everywhere else where people meet, and people are met with, who would
not meet or be met with elsewhere. I have seen many nice girls; but the
nice girls were, like myself, almost penniless; and I have seen many
ill-favoured, who had money: the first I could only afford to look at--
the latter I have had some dealings with. I have been refused by one or
two, and I might have married seven or eight; but, somehow or other,
when it came near the point, the vision of a certain angel, now in
heaven, has risen before me, and I have not had the heart or the
heartlessness to proceed. Indeed, I may safely say that I have seen but
one person since we parted who ever made the least impression on me, or
whom I could fancy in any degree to replace her whom I have lost, and
she, I fear, is lost also; so we may as well say no more about it. I
have determined to marry for money, as you well know; but it appears to
me as if there was something which invariably prevents the step being
taken; and, upon my honour, fortune seems so inclined to balk me in my
wishes, that I begin to snap my fingers at her, and am becoming quite
indifferent. I suffer now under the evil of poverty; but it is
impossible to say what other evils may be in store if I were to change
my condition, as the ladies say. Come what will, in one thing I am
determined--that if I marry a girl for money, I will treat her well, and
not let her find it out; and as that may add to the difficulty of a
man's position when he is not in love with his wife, why, all I can say
is, Captain O'Donahue doesn't go cheap--that's decided."

"You're right, my jewel; there's not such a broth of a boy to be picked
up every day in the week. Widows might bid for you, for without
flattery, I think you a moral of a man, and an honour to Old Ireland.
But O'Donahue, begging your pardon, if it's not a secret, who may have
been this lady who appears to have bothered your brains not a little,
since she could you forget somebody else?"

"I met her at the Lakes of Cumberland, and being acquainted with some of
the party, was invited to join them. I was ten days in her company at
Windermere, Ambleside, Derwentwater, and other places. She was a
foreigner, and titled."

"Murder and Irish! you don't say so?"

"Yes; and