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VGW(RI.773.050
17 Jun 1773:21 (371)
London. . . Anecdote of Miss Linley. On the first treaty of
marriage between Miss Linley and Mr. Sheridan (which was
finally concluded last Tuesday) the father of the young lady
insisted, as a preliminary, that the 3000 L. obtained of Sir
T. Long, for his non-performance of a contract of marriage,
should be previously given up to him, which Mr. Sheridan
readily consented to. A few days, however, before the
marriage day, the father finding young Sheridan attached to
his daughter on no other principles than those of affection,
waited on him, and told him he had another condition of a
pecuniary nature to settle with him before the marriage.
Sheridan told him nothing of that nature should ever
obstruct his happiness. "Why, then, says the father, the
other condition I have to make to you is, to take this 3000
L. as the properest person I know upon earth to receive it."
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