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ami figure that I am not handsome. This considera- 

 tion weighed seriously upon my mind for sometime, 

 but on recollecting that marriages now-a-days were 

 contracted for personal aggrandizement, and that 

 the word interest had long been substituted for 

 love, I was inclined to think that though I might 

 appear to be perfectly hideous in the eyes of the 

 object of my choice, yet that she would not scruple 

 to go through the forms at the altar (for I believe 

 no one calls them vows in this enlightened age) for 

 i lu- <uke of my money. And then I pictured to 

 myself the efforts I should make to win her esteem, 

 and perhaps her love, after marriage, by good tem- 

 per, and a wish to please. Having thus determined 

 on an immediate departure from the paths of celi- 

 bacy, I began to think which was the best mode of 

 carrying it into effect. It at last struck me that I 

 ought to go forthwith to the metropolis, that great 

 matrimonial mart, where a man with money may 

 get any thing from fashionable heartlessness down 

 to unsophisticated suburban gothicism. I lost no 

 time in performing this intention, and soon found 

 myself in Long's Hotel, Bond Street. For six 

 months, my efforts to find a wife were unremitting, 

 but they were wholly ineffectual. At last I deter- 

 mined to advertize tior one in the public newspapers, 

 and I had the satisfaction of seeing the next day 

 the following announcement of my wishes in ' The 

 Times' and ' Morning Post/ 



