'Mr.De la Pluche (seshee), why, why press this point?
You can't suppose that you will be happy with a person like me ?' "'I adoar you, charming gal!' says I.'Never, never go to say any such thing.' "'You adored Mary Ann first,' answers her ladyship; 'you can't keep your eyes off her now.

If any man courts her you grow so jealous that you begin beating him.

You will break the girl's heart if you don't marry her, and perhaps some one else's--but you don't mind THAT.' "'Break yours, you adoarible creature! I'd die first! And as for Mary Hann, she will git over it; people's arts aint broakn so easy.

Once for all, suckmstances is changed betwigst me and er.

It's a pang to part with her' (says I, my fine hi's filling with tears), 'but part from her I must.' "It was curius to remark abowt that singlar gal, Lady Hangelina, that melumcolly as she was when she was talking to me, and ever so disml--yet she kep on laffing every minute like the juice and all.
"'What a sacrifice!' says she; 'it's like Napoleon giving up Josephine.
What anguish it must cause to your susceptible heart!' "'It does,' says I--'Hagnies!' (Another laff.) "'And if--if I don't accept you--you will invade the States of the Emperor, my papa, and I am to be made the sacrifice and the occasion of peace between you!' "'I don't know what you're eluding to about Joseyfeen and Hemperors your Pas; but I know that your Pa's estate is over hedaneers morgidged; that if some one don't elp him, he's no better than an old pawper; that he owes me a lot of money; and that I'm the man that can sell him up hoss & foot; or set him up agen--THAT'S what I know, Lady Hangelina,' says I, with a hair as much as to say, 'Put THAT in your ladyship's pipe and smoke it.' "And so I left her, and nex day a serting fashnable paper enounced-- "'MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE .-- We hear that a matrimonial union is on the tapis between a gentleman who has made a colossal fortune in the Railway World, and the only daughter of a noble earl, whose estates are situated in D-ddles-x.