As the law requires that the parties should be some weeks
resident in the parish, we shall stay here till the ceremony is
performed. -- Mr Lismahago requests that he may take the benefit of
the same occasion; so that next Sunday the banns will be
published for all four together. -- I doubt I shall not be able to
pass my Christmas with you at Brambleton-hall. -- Indeed, I am so
agreeably situated in this place, that I have no desire to shift
my quarters; and I foresee, that when the day of separation
comes, there will be abundance of sorrow on all sides. -- In the
mean time, we must make the most of those blessings which Heaven
bestows. -- Considering how you are tethered by your profession, I
cannot hope to see you so far from home; yet the distance does
not exceed a summer-day's journey, and Charles Dennison, who
desires to be remembered to you, would be rejoiced to see his old
compotator; but as I am now stationary, I expect regular answers
to the epistles of
Yours invariably,
MATT. BRAMBLE
Oct. 11.
To Sir WATKIN PHILLIPS, Bart. at Oxon.
DEAR WAT,
Every day is now big with incident and discovery -- Young Mr
Dennison proves to be no other than that identical person whom I
have execrated so long, under the name of Wilson -- He had eloped
from college at Cambridge, to avoid a match that he detested, and
acted in different parts of the country as a stroller, until the
lady in question made choice of a husband for herself; then he
returned to his father, and disclosed his passion for Liddy,
which met with the approbation of his parents, though the father
little imagined that Mr Bramble was his old companion Matthew
Loyd.
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