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"I hardly like taking thee out this wet day, Phineas -- but it is a comfort to have thee."
Perhaps it was, for John was bent on a trying errand. He was going to communicate to Mr. Brithwood of the Mythe, Ursula's legal guardian and trustee, the fact that she had promised him her hand -- him, John Halifax, the tanner. He did it -- nay, insisted upon doing it -- the day after he came of age, and just one week after they had been betrothed -- this nineteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and one.