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SQUIRE PEDANT.

43 Without much circuity, I will give you a delineature of my antenuptial operations. By a series of operose and periculous conatus, I congested an adequacy of pecunious ability to effectuate the emption of a swale, adjacent to an aqueous meander, very feracious, and frugiferous.

This swale, I ornated with a deft manse – exsiccated its humid and aqueous surface by effosion. I rendered the croft specially venust and delectable, by the eduction of melocotо̄n, nuciferous, pomiferous, and pyriferous trees, from its terreous surface, in the obumbration of which I could, unannoyed by paddocks, pollypodes, and all puncturing animalculae, indulge my ingenerate somnolence. These concomitants of my won, whose interior garniture was unisonous with the exterior aspect, educed from me the plerophory, that I was still under a degarnishment whilst unassociated with one of the costal genus. My misogyny minorated assiduate, and an appetition for the sponsal state became more puissant.

This erotism impelled me to frequent a nundinal occasion. There percase, I ogled for the first time at my present “cara sposa.” I espied her in consociation with a templar, a politicaster whose fatuity was visible in all his abearance. A sagittal puncture from Cupid through my pericardium, effected such an ecclaircissement of my optics, that I espied a millenary of formosities in her somatical structure. Her roseal labial surface; her liliaceous cuticle; her locomotivity, and mellifluent loquacity effascinated me, indeed divested me of all autarchy. I effectuated an allocation of myself to her; spontaneity of enterparlance was mutual, for, the arcubalist of the erotic sagittarius had also jaculated a vire into her affectuosities.

But the eviction of the templar from her sodality, was the punctilio. My mental perturbations, in view