This sum arises partly
from his pay's running up while he remained among the Indians;
partly from what he received as a consideration for the
difference between his full appointment and the half-pay, to
which he is now restricted; and partly from the profits of a
little traffick he drove in peltry, during his sachemship among
the Miamis.
Liddy's fears and perplexities have been much assuaged by the
company of one Miss Willis, who had been her intimate companion
at the boarding-school. Her parents had been earnestly sollicited
to allow her making this friendly visit on such an extraordinary
occasion; and two days ago she arrived with her mother, who did
not chuse that she should come without a proper gouvernante. The
young lady is very sprightly, handsome, and agreeable, and the
mother a mighty good sort of a woman; so that their coming adds
considerably to our enjoyment. But we shall have a third couple
yoked in the matrimonial chain. Mr Clinker Loyd has made humble
remonstrance through the canal of my nephew, setting forth the
sincere love and affection mutually subsisting between him and
Mrs Winifred Jenkins, and praying my consent to their coming
together for life.
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