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No, Worshipton; there is not a woman now existing, as the world goes, that would suit me; and I verily think that here as I stand, with all my opinions and habits about me, I would suit no woman: I must e'en remain as I am.

I wish to God I could do so too: I should ask no better.

What should hinder you, young man?

I am under the necessity of marrying: my circumstances oblige me to it.

I am at a loss to comprehend the necessity you talk of.

Will three hundred a year and a commission in the army keep a man's pocket in loose money, my good sir, support a groom and valet, a pair of riding horses, and a curricle?

I crave your pardon, sir: these things being necessaries, you are perfectly in the right; and if