Whedell; "but, on some
accounts, the 1st of May will suit me best, if perfectly agreeable
to you."
"As you please."
"We will call it the 1st of May, then. I regret you are in a hurry, sir.
But remember, we are always happy to see you here."
With this pleasant remark ringing in his ears, and fully compensating
him for the loss of his two hundred dollars, Maltboy hastened home, but
did not tell his friends of his adventure; but he smoked and mused over
it agreeably, and was totally unmindful of the truth announced by Mr.
Quigg on New Year's day, when speaking of this same Whedell, that
"somehow debtors always give the cold shoulder to creditors, as if the
creditors owed the money."
Mr. Whedell, left to his own society, flattered himself that he had
turned a rejected lover to a good account, and entered his library and
sat down in the cold, that he might not, by his presence, mar the
harmonious progress of the courtship upon which so much depended, in
the parlor.
CHAPTER IV.
THE FIRST OF MAY.
Mr. Chiffield proposed, was accepted, and was married in a Broadway
church about the middle of April.
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