Women of Letters
Women of Letters
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pp. 177-180.
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tion, and rather surprising to find no trace of her having sent her humble adorer a kindly message.
But possibly she feared lest even a word of en- couragement might have brought him in person, a " pilgrim of love," to her feet, and dreaded the "noble rage" into which such an arrival would certainly have thrown h^r father.
Mrs. Holland evidently thought that the very confidential and voluminous correspondence with Sir William Klford "meant... something," as the gossips say ; and that as he had congenial tastes and a handsome fortune, and the trifling difference of forty years in age was on the right side, he ought to be smiled upon. But Miss Mitford replied : " I shall aot mairy Sir W. Elford, for which there is a remarkably good reason, the said Sir W. having no sort of desire to marry me ; neither shall I marry anybody. I know myself well enough to be sure that if any man were silly enough to wish such a thing, and I silly enough to say yes, a timely fit of wisdohi would come upon me and I should run away from the church door." Besides, she adds, Sir William has '*an out- rageous fondness " for her letters — " and marrying a favourite correspondent would be like killing the goose that laid the golden eggs." There were circumstances, however, under which, she owns, even she could have contemplated matri- Digitized by Google A^ISS MITFORD.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
pp. 177-180.
Digitized by Google 1 82 WOMEN OF LETTERS.
tion, and rather surprising to find no trace of her having sent her humble adorer a kindly message.
But possibly she feared lest even a word of en- couragement might have brought him in person, a " pilgrim of love," to her feet, and dreaded the "noble rage" into which such an arrival would certainly have thrown h^r father.
Mrs. Holland evidently thought that the very confidential and voluminous correspondence with Sir William Klford "meant... something," as the gossips say ; and that as he had congenial tastes and a handsome fortune, and the trifling difference of forty years in age was on the right side, he ought to be smiled upon. But Miss Mitford replied : " I shall aot mairy Sir W. Elford, for which there is a remarkably good reason, the said Sir W. having no sort of desire to marry me ; neither shall I marry anybody. I know myself well enough to be sure that if any man were silly enough to wish such a thing, and I silly enough to say yes, a timely fit of wisdohi would come upon me and I should run away from the church door." Besides, she adds, Sir William has '*an out- rageous fondness " for her letters — " and marrying a favourite correspondent would be like killing the goose that laid the golden eggs." There were circumstances, however, under which, she owns, even she could have contemplated matri- Digitized by Google A^ISS MITFORD.
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