I never could understand a word of him before--so I never tried.

Who do you think is engaged?
Victoria Dare, to a coronet and a peat-bog, with Lord Dunbeg attached.
Victoria says she is happier than she ever was before in any of her other engagements, and she is sure this is the real one.

She says she has thirty thousand a year derived from the poor of America, which may just as well go to relieve one of the poor in Ireland.
You know her father was a claim agent, or some such thing, and is said to have made his money by cheating his clients out of their claims.
She is perfectly wild to be a countess, and means to make Castle Dunbeg lovely by-and-by, and entertain us all there.

Madeleine says she is just the kind to be a great success in London.

Madeleine is very well, and sends her kind regards.