The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;
We coasted into the harbor, took down the sails, foreshot a little, let go the anchor, the moon rose, and Cecilia already had a meal prepared.
“Indeed, sir,” answered the lady, with some warmth, “I cannot think there is anything easier than to cheat an old woman with a profession of love, when her complexion is amorous; and, though she is my aunt, I must say there never was a more liquorish one than her ladyship. […]
Such towns as stand, as one may say, on tiptoes on the very umstroke, or on any part of the utmost line of a map […]
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