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The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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she has a right to expect from a husband.
This shall lie in your hands, together with
her dowry, and you may apply the united
sum as suits her interest best; it shall be
all exclusively hers while she lives. Is that
liberal?'

Douw assented, and inwardly thought
that fortune had been extraordinarily kind
to his niece. The stranger, he thought,
must be both wealthy and generous, and
such an offer was not to be despised, though
made by a humourist, and one of no very
prepossessing presence.

Rose had no very high pretensions, for
she was almost without dowry; indeed,
altogether so, excepting so far as the
deficiency had been supplied by the generosity
of her uncle. Neither had she any right to
raise any scruples against the match on the
score of birth, for her own origin was by
no means elevated; and as to other objections,
Gerard resolved, and, indeed, by the
usages of the time was warranted in
resolving, not to listen to them for a moment.

'Sir,' said he, addressing the stranger,
'your offer is most liberal, and whatever
hesitation I may feel in closing with it
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