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you choose to impose a disagreeable restraint upon yourself for such necessaries, nobody has any right to find fault with you.

Impose upon myself a restraint! Ha! ha! ha! pardon me! this is rather an amusing idea of yours.

Why, you would not be base enough to marry a woman and neglect her.

No, Sir John; I should pay her as much attention as women of the world now expect, and she who is not satisfied with that must be a fool.

Well, pray heaven you may find one wife enough to be satisfied with you! But if you seriously mean to pay your addresses to Sir Rowland's heiress, you must inform her of the real state of your affairs. I'll have no advantage taken of a young woman under my eye, tho' it should be for the interest of my family.

I shall pretend to nothing but what she may be ascertained of if she has eyes in her head.