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contused. Miss Millis, hearing 

 of the accident, sent hira a bottle 

 of lotion to bathe the bruised limb 

 with, and, induced by kindness of 

 disposition, afterwards visited him, 

 to see it properly applied : this 

 kindness made a very strong im- 

 pression on the mind of the de- 

 fendant, who having recently lost 

 his wife, and being not more than 

 ten years older than the plaintiff', 

 felt persuaded that she would 

 prove a proper person to fill up 

 the vacancy in his heart : he de- 

 clared his affection in due form, 

 and, it appeared, did not meet 

 with a repulse ; for on the defend- 

 ant's return to London, which took 

 place soon after, a correspondence 

 commenced betwixt them, which 

 continued till June, 1805. 



He would now proceed to read 

 some of the letters : the first was 

 dated the 9th of September, ISO'i, 

 and was to the following effect : — 



" My dear Mary, — I received 

 your letter of the 29th of August ; 

 the contents cheered my heart 

 very much. You may think me 

 too old for these professions. I 

 could not help kissing your dear 

 letter over and over again before 

 destroying it : you are very cruel 

 to bid me destroy them. The world 

 is full of vanities, but you are the 

 only thing in it I wish to realize. 



["Here," said the learned 

 counsel, "comes an instance of 

 abominable misuse of Scripture 

 language — of an impudent prac- 

 tice of conceiving that all his tri- 

 fling and foolish movements are 

 objects of immediate interest to a 

 particular Providence."] 



" I have been much ruffled in 

 spirit this morning, by fighting 

 with an impudent maid-servant; 

 I sent her off", however ; but by 

 the kindness of Providence, the 



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trial has been made up to me in 

 the sweetness of my girl's ; I have 

 been recompensed too by getting 

 a maid from Oxford (rather a 

 singular place of selection, said 

 Mr. Park) : she is likely to be a 

 good one; but, my dear, I am 

 tired of leading a single life ; keep 

 me near your heart." 



[" And here," said the learned 

 counsel, " is one instance of what 

 we have all heard so much about 

 — the ingenuity of love. Mr. 

 Flower would not condescend to 

 use the common mode of writing 

 the word heart — he takes the 

 trouble of drawing an aukward 

 emblem, a cheese cake heart, upon 

 his paper, and sends this effigy of 

 his passion to his only beloved."] 



" I don't mind what the world 

 says ; I am accountable only to 

 Providence. I don't know how I 

 shall go to Coventry, for I can- 

 not return and leave you behind ; 

 yet I would not wish to marry till 

 March, as by that time my wife 

 will have been a year dead." 



He came to Coventry, quarrel- 

 led with the plaintiff on some fri- 

 volous pretence, returned to Lon- 

 don, and finally married another. 

 This was in 1805. " I am not in- 

 clined," said Mr. Park, " to ap- 

 prove of this delay ; but much 

 might be alleged for it ; the un- 

 certainty whether the defendant 

 might not be prevailed on to do 

 Miss Millis justice ; the shame and 

 pain which a respectable female 

 felt in becoming so much an ob- 

 ject for the public eye as an appeal 

 to public justice generally makes 

 lier ; and last, though an inferior 

 consideration, her wish to have 

 hira (Mr. Park) as her counsel. 

 She might havefound a much bet- 

 ter ; but such was her fancy, for 

 he roi'M call it nothing more. 



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