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CHAPTER XVII. MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS AND AGENCIES.

being described thus in the plan:—

Ladies.
1st Class.I am twenty years of age, heiress to an estate in the county of Essex of the value of 30,000 l. , well educated, and of domestic habits; of an agreeable, lively disposition, and genteel figure. Religion that of my future husband.
2nd Class.I am thirty years of age, a widow, in the grocery line in London—have children; of middle stature, full made, fair complexion and hair, temper agreeable, worth 3,000 l.
3rd Class.I am tall and thin, a little lame in the hip, of a lively disposition, conversible, twenty years of age, live with my father, who, if I marry with his consent, will give me 1,000 l.
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