My misery has been
aggravated by the feeling that you and my uncle will hardly believe
him to be so false, and will attribute part of the blame to me. I
had to undergo an agonizing revulsion of feeling, during which Mr.
Green's behaviour to me was at first so considerate and then so
kind that it has gone far to cure the wound from which I have been
suffering. He is so well known in reference to foreign affairs,
that I think my uncle cannot but have heard of him; my cousin
Mistletoe is certainly acquainted with him; and I think that you
cannot but approve of the match. You know what is the position of
my father and my mother, and how little able they are to give us
any assistance. If you would be kind enough to let us be married
from Mistletoe, you will confer on both of us a very, very great
favour." There was more of it, but that was the first of the
prayer, and most of the words given above came from the dictation
of Mounser himself. She had pleaded against making the direct
request, but he had assured her that in the world, as at present
arranged, the best way to get a thing is to ask for it. "You make
yourself at any rate understood," he said, "and you may be sure
that people who receive petitions do not feel the hardihood of them
so much as they who make them." Arabella, comforting herself by
declaring that the Duchess at any rate could not eat her, wrote the
letter and sent it.
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