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185 me in private with an offer made of his marry- ing of Mrs. Elizabeth Wiles, whom I know ; a kinswoman of Mr. Iloniwood's, an ugly old maid, but good housewife, and is said to have 2500Z. to her portion ; but if I can find that she has but 200(H., which he prays me to examine, he says he will have her, she being one he had long known intimately, and a good housewife, and discreet woman ; though I am against it in my heart, she being not handsome at all : and it hath been the very bad fortune... of the Pepyses that ever I knew, never to marry an handsome woman, excepting Ned Pepys." x On the 22d of January, 1668, Pepys goes with my Lord Brouncker to dine at Sir D. Gau- den's, where " a good dinner and much good company, and a fine house, and especially two rooms very fiue, he hath built there. His lady a good lady : but my Lord led himself and me to a great absurdity in kissing all the ladies, but the first of all the company, leaving her out — I know not how ; aud I was loath to do it since he omitted it." On the last day of the same month, he records, " It is observed, and is true, 1 Edward Pepys, of Broomsthorpe, who married Elizabeth Walpole.
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