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Gainsborough. It seems to have been a great
shock to her father, though it can scarcely have
been a surprise, when she informed him of her
engagement to the musician ; and in a'letter he
wrote to his sister, Mrs. Gibbon, one of the very
few relics of his correspondence which have
been preserved, he says : “ The notice I had of it
was very sudden, as I had not the least suspicion
of the attachment being so long and deeply
seated; and as it was too late for me to alter
anything without being the cause of total un-
happiness on both sides, my consent, which was
a mere compliment to affect to ask, I needs must
give; whether such a match was agreeable to me
or not I would not have the cause of unhappi-
ness lie upon my conscience; and accordingly
they were married last Monday, and are settled
for the present in a ready-furnished little house
in Curzon Street, Mayfair. I can’t say,” he
adds, with a pathetic effort to make the best of
what was a most unfortunate event for all con-
cerned, “ I have any reason to doubt the man’s
honesty or goodness of heart, as I never heard
any one speak anything amiss of him, and as to
his oddities and temper, she must learn to like
them as she likes his person, for nothing can be
altered now. . . . Peggy has been very un-
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Gainsborough. It seems to have been a great
shock to her father, though it can scarcely have
been a surprise, when she informed him of her
engagement to the musician ; and in a'letter he
wrote to his sister, Mrs. Gibbon, one of the very
few relics of his correspondence which have
been preserved, he says : “ The notice I had of it
was very sudden, as I had not the least suspicion
of the attachment being so long and deeply
seated; and as it was too late for me to alter
anything without being the cause of total un-
happiness on both sides, my consent, which was
a mere compliment to affect to ask, I needs must
give; whether such a match was agreeable to me
or not I would not have the cause of unhappi-
ness lie upon my conscience; and accordingly
they were married last Monday, and are settled
for the present in a ready-furnished little house
in Curzon Street, Mayfair. I can’t say,” he
adds, with a pathetic effort to make the best of
what was a most unfortunate event for all con-
cerned, “ I have any reason to doubt the man’s
honesty or goodness of heart, as I never heard
any one speak anything amiss of him, and as to
his oddities and temper, she must learn to like
them as she likes his person, for nothing can be
altered now. . . . Peggy has been very un-