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will, with the approbation of her brother Van Maurice, throw aside all disguise, and be married. He sails in the Mermaid to-morrow.

May the waves of the sea be his winding-sheet! May the fishes of the ocean devour his lothly carcass!

It may, indeed, be lothly enough when it falls to their share, but for his living carcass, at least, you must own that is noble and goodly.

I own it not: to me there is something in his air, his form, his mien, in the glance of his eye, yea, in the garb which he wears, that is intolerable.

The ladies of Lubeck think differently.

Let them think as they will! it makes me mad to hear of such stupid, such perverse, such blind partiality. Senseless, fickle fools!

True, they are fickle enough; but never mind it, that will cure the evil. They will praise him for an Apollo till he marry Rosella, and abuse him for a scarecrow afterwards.