, why this Ceremony, this Matter of Form? sure Miss
Golding
may, at any Time, command twenty Times this Sum without any Order save her own Intimation.  �  Indeed! are you serious Mr.
Clinton?
I am very proud I assure you to have so much Credit with you � But, Mr.
Harry,
how comes it to pass that we have so little of your Company ?  �  Your Father's Business, Madam, deprives me of the Pleasure I should otherwise have in attending you.  �  Again, Sir, I am quite proud that it is your Attention to my Father, alone, which prevents your having any Attention for his Daughter � so saying, she vanished.
Immediately I was struck with a Glimpse of some uncommon Meaning in the Words and Behaviour of Miss
Golding,
but as I never had looked toward the Way of her Affections, I passed it lightly over as some Matter of Whim or Caprice in the Sex.
Among the brilliant Concourse of Suitors that frequented our House there was one Mr.
Spelling,
a young Gentleman highly accomplished in his Person and Manners, and of a most amiable Countenance and Disposition. His Father, like Miss
Golding
's, had been a Merchant, and like him too had amassed an excessive Fortune. As he was modest, as I may say, to a Degree of Shamefacedness, he did not declare himself a Lover, till nearly the whole Multitude of Competitors had been discarded. Then, with a blushing Diffidence, he avowed his Passion to Mr.
Golding,
and earnestly besought his Consent and Intercession in his Favour. You have not only my Consent, replied the good old Man, you have also my best Wishes, and shall have my best Endeavours for your Success: However I must warn you at the same Time, Mr.
Spelling,
that I will not do any Violence to the Inclinations of my Child, although there are not two in the World whom I would prefer to you.
I was writing in my Closet when Mr.
Golding
came in, with an anxious Importance in his Countenance, and told me what passed between him and Mr.
Spelling,
and asked if I did not approve the Match. I do not know Sir, said I, that Man in
England
who is so deserving of your Daughter as Mr.
Spelling.
Then, my dear
Harry,
I have a Commission to give you,
Matilda
has a great Respect for your Judgment, I beseech you to make Use of your Influence with her, and to exert all your Oratory in Behalf of this young Man.  �  But, Sir
