I have left them a moment, to share my joy with you: the time is too precious to say more. To-morrow you shall hear from me.
Adieu! Yours,
Ed. Rivers.
LETTER CCXXI.225.
To Captain Fitzgerald.
Temple-house, Friday.
Your friend is the happiest of mankind.
Every anxiety is removed from my Emily’s dear bosom: a father’s sanction leaves her nothing to desire.
You may remember, she wished to delay our marriage: her motive was, to wait Colonel Willmott’s return.
Though promised by him to another, she hoped to bring him to leave her heart free; little did she think the man destined for her by her father, was the happy Rivers her heart had chosen.
Bound by a solemn vow, she concealed the circumstances of her birth even from me.