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 somewhat distant, yet it was a great comfort to the laird, that Mr. Roger O'Rourke was a gentleman. Mrs. Sourkrout and her daughter had also the satisfaction to learn that Mr. O'Rourke's great grandfather by the mother's side had been a bishop; and though it is true he had been popish, still he had a title to wear a mitre on his carriage. These considerations having all the evidence in their favour which the testimony of the narrator could bestow, made a deep impression on the worthy saints, and combined with their evangelical sympathy in inclining them to admit the suit of this holy gentleman. Ere long they agreed to his proposals, and the marriage was duly solemnized. The bridegroom having a dash of vanity, determined to publish this alliance in the newspapers, which he did in the following terms, involving in them an allusion to