<p>When sixteen-year-old Fanny Herriard b~<br />
through the mstrunientality of her father the Rev. Theophil~<br />
with his full consen~ and approval, betrothed to forty-eight-ye<br />
Thomas Paget, the rd~lating officer of Gosport, she was under n<br />
sion as to the romance h~ the match. She did not make any atter<br />
corivince herself that Mr. Paget was a heroic or dashing chara<br />
despite the fact that he preferred to be called Captain Paget; in<br />
of fact, as she knew, a regulating officer was hardly to be distlngl<br />
from a civilian--and besides, Papa said that Mr. Paget only c~<br />
the rank of lieutenant. Moreover the prospective bridegroom<br />
widower, with two daughters already older than Fanny herself, an<br />
younger, and until this year he had possessed little more than hi<br />
of one pound a day and additional ten shillings subsistence r~<br />
(His previous wife, it was to be inferred, had been able to brin~<br />
some money of her own).<br />
Recently, however, Captain Paget had benefited by a stroke of<br />
fortune which, quite unexpectedly, enabled him to contemplate<br />
ond marriage, one this time for pleasure rather than for conveni<br />
A distant cousin of his, whom he had never even met, having h,<br />
succeeded to an immense--and quite unanticipated--legacy, just<br />
had contracted an alliance with a wealthy man of rank, had the h<br />
and liberal notion of seeking out the more impoverished membe<br />
her family and sharing her good fortune with them. The aston<br />
Thomas, therefore, found himself not only endowed, out of the<br />
with a handsome competence, enough to enable him to buy a thr:<br />
business, but also possessed for an indefinite period of a larger<br />
much more comfortable house than his own, at a very reasor<br />
rental.<br />
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