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 behaviour; whilst every worthy woman must be charmed with his goodness of heart, he caught him by the hand, and said, "Be it so:—let the name of father be added to the name of friend, and therefore make me completely happy. She is yours, my Whittington, if with her own consent." "And without her own consent, I would die," replied Whittington, "before I would receive her hand." Miss and her mother were sent for, and never was there a party moromore [sic] endeared to each other. Mr. Fitzwarren called Whittington his son elect; Mrs. Fitzwarren, her dearest boy: and Miss Fitzwarren confessed she preferred him to his whole sex.

The humility of Mr. Whittington's mind arising from a strong sense of his duty to society in general, prevented his temper from exhilarating into arrogance, petulance, or superciliousness: though suddenly grown rich, and become equal to the first merchants in the eitycity [sic], pride had no share in the changochange [sic] of his circumstances.



King Edward the Third being then at war, solicited a subsidy. In this schemoscheme [sic] Mr. Whittington joined in £10,000, an astonishing sum in those days from one individual. What contributed much in favour of Whittington, was thothe [sic] exclusion of the Lombard merchants. These, and the Jews abroad, conducted at that time the whole financial commercocommerce [sic] of the City of London; but Mr. Whittington, upon their departure, came in for a considerabloconsiderable [sic] share of it.

About this timotime [sic] the king demanded of the City of London to advance him £4000, upon the poll-tax, and the Mayor, Adam Staple, proving backward in performing the same, he was by the king turned out of that office, and Sir Richard Whittington