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lxxxiv beseech God to give both them and us his blessing in this weighty affair, that she may prove every way a good wife for a very honest, good-natured man, as indeed, without any partiality, I think he is.

"My service to Mrs. Evelyn, with whom I do truly rejoice for her daughter's recovery. If it be not a trouble, present my service to Mrs. Draper. I wish her joy of her son. "A. S." The son thus alluded to lived only a year; and, upon hearing of its death, Lady Sunderland writes in this strain of condolence and complaint.

"Though I have the mortification to think myself quite forgotten by Mr. Evelyn, I have this to