"Previous to the wedding, we had many consultations as to the plan of life we should pursue. I had saved nearly four hundred pounds from my own earnings, and my brother's presents. Hewit expected to receive seven hundred pounds as his share of prize money, and my brother would insist upon giving me five more, as a marriage portion. With this sum it was concluded that we could not do better than set up in business in London; for though we were but a young couple, Hewit being but twenty-three, and I not quite twenty, they paid me the compliment of saying, that with prudence, like mine, success could not fail to crown our endeavours.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.