Letter XLIX

Summary

My dear Lady Davers,

I have Three Marriages to acquaint you with, in One Letter. In the first Place, Sir W. G. has sent, by the particular Desire of my dear Friend, that he was made one of the happiest Gentlemen in England, on the 18th past; and so I have no longer any Miss Darnford to boast of. I have a very good Opinion of the Gentleman; but if he be but half as good an Husband, as she will make a Wife, they will be exceedingly happy in one another.

Mr. Williams's Marriage to a Kinswoman of his Noble Patron, (as you have heard was in Treaty) is the next; and there is great Reason to believe from the Character of both, that they will likewise do Credit to the State.

The third is Mr. Adams and Polly Barlow; and I wish them, for both their Sakes, as happy as either of the former. They are set out to his Living, highly pleas’d with one another; and I hope will have Reason to continue so to be.

As to the first, I did not indeed think, the Affair would have been so soon concluded; and Miss kept it off so long, as I understand, that her Papa was angry with her: And indeed, as the Gentleman's Family, Circumstances, and Character, were such, that there could lie no Objection against him, I think it would have been wrong to have delay’d it.

I should have written to your Ladyship before; but have been favour’d with Mr. B.'s Company into Kent, on a Visit to my good Mother, who was indispos’d. We tarry’d there a Week, and left both my dear Parents, to my thankful Satisfaction, in as good Health as ever they were in their Lives.

Mrs. Judy Swynford, or Miss Swynford (as she refuses not being call’d, now-and-then) has been with us for this Week past, and she expects her Brother, Sir Jacob, to fetch her away about a Week hence.

It does not become me to write the least Word, that may appear disrespectful of any Person, who has the Honour to bear a Relation to your Ladyship and Mr. B. Otherwise I should say, That the B.'s and the S—s are directly the Opposites of one another.