You will see by the newspapers that ther's a lection going on for
parliament. It maks my corruption to rise to hear of such doings,
and if I was a government as I'm but a woman, I woud put them doon
with the strong hand, just to be revenged on the proud stomaks of
these het and fou English.
We have gotten our money in the pesents put into our name; but I
have had no peese since, for they have fallen in price three eight
parts, which is very near a half, and if they go at this rate, where
will all our legacy soon be? I have no goo of the pesents; so we
are on the look-out for a landed estate, being a shure thing.
Captain Saber is still sneking after Rachel, and if she were awee
perfited in her accomplugments, it's no saying what might happen,
for he's a fine lad, but she's o'er young to be the heed of a
family. Howsomever, the Lord's will maun be done, and if there is
to be a match, she'll no have to fight for gentility with a
straitent circumstance.
As for Andrew, I wish he was weel settlt, and we have our hopes that
he's beginning to draw up with Miss Argent, who will have, no doobt,
a great fortune, and is a treasure of a creeture in herself, being
just as simple as a lamb; but, to be sure, she has had every
advantage of edication, being brought up in a most fashonible
boarding-school.
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