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A dozen gentlemen at least, rumour said, would have rejoiced to end for her, by marriage, this lovely lady's widowhood; but there were but two she would be like to choose between, and they were different men indeed. One of them, both her heart and her ambition might have caused her to make choice of, for he combined such qualities and fortunes as might well satisfy either.
"Zounds," said an old beau, "the woman who wants more than his Grace of Osmonde can give -- more money, greater estates, and more good looks -- is like to go unsatisfied to her grave. She will take him, I swear, and smile like Heaven in doing it."