Excerpt from Sayings and Doings, Vol. 3 of 3: Or Sketches From Life, Second Series His first operation was to transmit to Miss Rodney a splendid cadeau, consisting of a dia mond necklace and ear-rings, together with a variety of trinkets, as ill-suited to her present condition as necessary to the station she was about to fill; and with these evidences of af fection he despatched a letter to the young lady, in which he suggested that it would be extremely agreeable to his family, if after his visit to her father, she and her mother were to come up to London, where the necessary pur chases for her marriage and voyage must of course he made. Mrs. Brashleigh, his daugh ter-in-law, would be delighted to see them in York Place, and as Mr. Rodney's vacation would very soon occur, it might altogether be made an agreeable party previous to their dc parture from England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.