Send by the bearer a sovereign!”
The young woman read this letter with disdain, and wrote back the following answer:—
“Sir,—I return your note with disgust, having been informed that you are a married man, and I hope you will bestow the trash you offered me upon your wife. So pray trouble me no more with your foolery.”
Poor H. took this so much to heart, that he went and drowned his senses in wine, and then returned home; undressing himself, the letter fell from his bosom, his wife picked it up, read it, and beat him about the head with a dish-cloth.
There are two ways of reading this to discover the parties. Henry —— lives in THIS STREET, and Fanny —— at the —— shop round the corner, and is said to be no better than she should be. The child’s name we understand is to be Anthony.
ALL FOUND OUT AT LAST,
Or the SECRET DISCOVERED,
After having been carried on in a curious manner for a long time.