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“Before you receive this, I shall be Mrs. Manlius C..W
Tilden. We have engaged a fleet pair of horses and a rapid
driver to take us to —, where a magistrate will be in
waiting to tie the knot, and where, having been joined by a
friend of Mr. T. as bridesman and compagnon du voyage, we
shall take the stage at four o'clock, A.M., for New York —
Mr. T.'s former residence, you know. He has been for some
time getting disgusted with the petty annoyances of a country
village, which, besides, he says, is no field for his talents.
But he could not bear to leave me. He offered his hand;
and, fearing papa would object, especially to so sudden a
match as he was resolved to make, or none — he proposed
the present romantic manner of making our adieus to Cartersville
— it is so like him! Well, Angeline, what would

you have done? But if you had felt the tender sentiment,
I know what you would have done. And then think of the
enviable station I shall fill among the very élite of city
society, surrounded by all the elegancies and refinements of
city life! All this he feels free to promise me; and I do
suppose he is soon to come in possession of a splendid fortune,
though he is so modest about it that I only obtained the secret
from him by some inadvertent hints he has dropped. I
anticipate how surprised you will all be, and I hardly expect
papa will fully approve my course at first — perhaps mamma
will not; but I know you will appreciate me, and so will Matilda
Mandevelle. I will write you again when we reach the
city, till which,