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...you will never have to so preposterous a match. You are not twenty-five and she is turned of fifty. Where are your means of subsistence? Porter has died...consequence of his wife's expensive habits. You have great talents, but, as yet, have turned them into no profitable channel". Actually Mrs Porter was forty-six...