my choice?

Indeed, it concerns me not a little, that my friends could be brought
to encourage such offers on such motives as I think a person of
conscience should not presume to begin the world with.

But this it seems is the only method that can be taken to disappoint
Mr. Lovelace; and at the same time to answer all my relations have
wish for each of us. And surely I will not stand against such an
accession to the family as may happen from marrying Mr. Solmes: since
now a possibility is discovered, (which such a grasping mind as my
brother's can easily turn into a probability,) that my grandfather's
estate will revert to it, with a much more considerable one of the
man's own. Instances of estates falling in, in cases far more
unlikely than this, are insisted upon; and my sister says, in the
words of an old saw, It is good to be related to an estate.

While Solmes, smiling no doubt to himself at a hope so remote, by
offers only, obtains all their interests; and doubts not to join to
his own the estate I am envied for; which, for the conveniency of its
situation between two of his, will it seems be of twice the value to
him that it would be of to any other person; and is therefore, I doubt
not, a stronger motive with him than the wife.

These, my dear, seem to me the principal inducements of my relations
to espouse so vehemently as they do this man's suit. And here, once
more, must I deplore the family fault, which gives those inducements
such a force as it will be difficult to resist.

And thus far, let matters with regard to Mr. Solmes and me come out as