Shall I say the import of your letter surprised me? I
know not. However, I think surprise was not the sensation predominant among the
many it set afloat; that you should have met with a man who looked, listened,
and entered the lists of love, tête
baissée, was an event much of course; but that an
equal to the admirable Crichton should
be met at all, and moreover, that the destinies should just place him within
the circle of Glorvina’s influence, is
truly a matter worthy of wonder, and particularly to me, who have hitherto
adhered pertinaciously to a persuasion, that kindred spirits were subjected to
the same laws as parallel lines, and never could meet on this ungracious
planet. But, behold an exception! Receive, my dear Sydney,
my sincere felicitations on your view of establishment. Yet rest assured, I do
not fail of taking a part in your anxieties, but who can be married without
such attendants? If every contre was
nearly looked to, alack, poor Hymen! But in
the main, establishment is good, in some lights almost expedient, since the
delights of youth, of friends, of range, and frolic, are but passengers. On the
subject of riches, it must be
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