text:  Beauty merit fortune connexion every advantage was hers calculated to do honour to a noble alliance; and as her father often exclaimed with a bitter sneer in answer to the mild pleadings of Selina--"Such a girl as that--a girl born to be a duchess--to sacrifice herself to the son of a Congleton manufacturer!" Two years did the struggle continue--during the greater part of which I was a constant eyewitness of the sorrows which so sobered the impetuous deportment of the light-hearted Mary Stanley