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EG.773.047
10-17 Aug 1773:91,92 (6/264)
London, May 1. A gentleman of an enterprising genius in the
fortune-hunting way, well known at all public places, is at
last, through mistake, married we hear, to a lady as
enterprising as himself. This fair one appeared frequently
this winter at the opera and play-houses, dressed extremely
brilliant, had a vast change of superb jewels, which she
dispersed in the decoration of her person, to the highest
advantage, and had also a very respectable acquaintance with
her own sex in the fashionable world; all which rendered her
so irresistible to the industrious gentleman that he pursued
her incessantly, and after a close siege of six weeks she
condescended to give him her hand. During the courtship, to
the connubial moment, he never once enquired into her
fortune; her connexions put her above enquiry. But in less
than a fortnight he found his way to her casket, and
privately taking away some of the diamonds, went to a
jeweller to dispose of them, when, to his horrid confusion,
he was informed they were False Stones; upon which he went
home, replaced imagined treasure, and without giving a
single hint to his bride, decamped that night, and has not
been since heard of.
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