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74 (my?) father and Charlotte, and believe me, till death, your friend and lover,

"P. S.—I was so taken up with one subject that I forgot to mention that Finley was married last evening to a Miss Nichols. Her father entered into speculation last winter, and is said to be rich. Finley he never gave Paulina Clark reason to expect to marry him; perhaps not in words; but, the old proverb is, 'actions speak loudest.' To my mind, a man who attends to a girl, and then quits her, adds hypocrisy to falsehood. I foresaw how this matter would end when I heard that Paulina's mother had made that third marriage; Finley would have liked a handsome wife, but he must have a rich one. He has set out in the world for what he calls the main chance; I have my main chance too, and that depends on you. Poor Paulina! But I'll not tell bad news (which may not be true) in this letter.

Morris Finley and Harry Aikin had begun life with objects diametrically opposite, and were destined to illustrate that saying, as true now as when, ages ago, it was first uttered:—"There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing—there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches."