(if _you_ please) in _Marrying You From_ and I may (_perhaps_) Do Something handsome for y^r. respectable Brother and Family, w^h can Often Come to see us And Live in the Neighborhood, if You Refuse me, Will not say What shall Happen to _Those_ which (am Told) _Owe me a Precious Long Figure_ w^h May (_perhaps_) Make a Handsome Abatement in, if You And I _Hit it_. "Hoping You Will Forget What Have So Much Griev^d. me, And Write p^t. return of Post, "Am, "hon^d. Miss "Y^r. most Loving & Devoted Servant "(Till Death) TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE. "PARTICULAR Private." This exquisitely constructed document its accomplished writer sealed twice, and then left, together with sixpence, in the hands of the landlady of the Hare and Hounds, to be delivered at Yatton Hall the first thing in the morning. The good woman, however--having no particular wish to oblige such a strange puppy, whom she was only too glad to get rid of, and having moreover a good deal to attend to--laid the letter aside on the chimney-piece, and entirely lost sight of it for nearly a fortnight. Shortly after the lamentable tidings concerning the impending misfortunes of the Aubrey family had been communicated to the inhabitants of Grilston, she forwarded the letter, (little dreaming of the character in which its writer was likely, erelong, to reappear at Grilston,) together with one or two others, a day or two after Miss Aubrey had had the interview with her brother which I have described to the reader; but it lay unnoticed by any one--above all, by the sweet sufferer whose name was indicated on it--among a great number of miscellaneous letters and papers which had been suffered to accumulate on the library table.