She then remarked, in a devout spirit,
that she thanked Heaven she had always found in
her daughter May, a dutiful and obedient child;
for which she took no credit to herself, though sho
had every reason to believe it was entirely owing
to herself. With regard to Mr. Tackleton she said,
That he was in a moral point of view an undeniable
individual, and That he was in an eligible point of
view a son-in-law to be desired, no one in their senses
could doubt. (She was very emphatic here.) With
regard to the family into which he was so soon about,
after some solicitation, to be admitted, she believed
Mr. Tackleton knew that, although reduced in purse,
it had some pretensions to gentility; and if certain
circumstances, not wholly unconnected, she would go
so far as to say, with the Indigo Trade, but to which
she would not more particularly refer, had happened
differently, it might perhaps have been in possession
of wealth. She then remarked that she would not
allude to the past, and would not mention that her
daughter had for some time rejected the suit of Mr.
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