This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...you will rightly gather that any little amiability you once thought I had, has fairly evaporated. I am afraid it has, and how can it be otherwise with a poor bachelor who spends the whole day in making and discoursing on sulphureous, phosphoreous, and other notorious, sour, acidifying substances? The heart of me is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...you will rightly gather that any little amiability you once thought I had, has fairly evaporated. I am afraid it has, and how can it be otherwise with a poor bachelor who spends the whole day in making and discoursing on sulphureous, phosphoreous, and other notorious, sour, acidifying substances? The heart of me is clean dried up, and serves no other purpose than to propel blood for digestive purposes. The whole tone of this epistle, I am persuaded, will show you (what I have not courage to confess honestly) the melancholy, stunted state of my moral being, and will enable you to understand how welcome was that proposal of yours concerning the procuring a wife for me. Nevertheless there are difficulties in the way, lions in the path, and the thing must be thought over.... Meanwhile, this much I will say, that provided you can clear away these difficulties, I see no person half so well fitted as yourself to pick out a wife for me. And why should it not be Miss?I have nobody picked out for myself here or elsewhere. So that for that matter you are perfectly free to speculate on my account, in any quarter you please. You may make any use of my name you think fit; make proposals wherever and whenever you see they will be acceptable. I leave the matter entirely in your hands, with implicit faith in your good intentions, prudence, and discernment. If an acrostic or a sonnet would help the affair on, it need not be wanted; or a bottle of marking-ink, or bleaching powder might, in this practical age, do more powerful execution. I begin to see no refuge for myself but in a wife. I am at present in love with so many ladies that I can never, by any act of freewill, single out one, and even if I could it would be at the risk of offending a score. But if you were quietly ...
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