7/23 We know what entails have come to there. Mr.Prosper will find some way of escaping from it. Entails go for nothing now; and I hear that he thinks so badly of his nephew that he has already quarrelled with him. And he is quite a young man himself. I cannot think how you can be so foolish,--you, who declared that you are throwing your cousin over because he is no longer to have all his father's property." "Oh, mamma, that is not true." "Very well, my dear." "I never allowed it to be said in my name that I was engaged to my cousin Mountjoy." "Very well, I will never allow it to be said in my name that with my consent you are engaged to Mr.Henry Annesley." Six or seven days after this they were settled together most uncomfortably in a hotel at Boulogne. |