" fortune, which is every day encreasing.""How nobly will you spend it!;¹ what credit""will you give him in the eyes of all!; How""much will he be respected on his Wife's""account! But why my dearest Lucy, why"" will you not at once decide this affair by re:""turning to me & never leaving me again!?Altho'Although""I admire ^yourthe noble sentiments with respect to""obligations, ^{yet, let me beg that they may not prevent}but yet me beg you not to suffer their^{them to prevent}preventing you from²^^your making me happy. It will""to be sure be a great expence to me, to have""you always with me — I shall not be able to"" support it – but what is that in comparison""with the happineſs I shall enjoy in your society?""– t’will ruin me I know — you will not there"::fore