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My lord is admiring his countenance in the glass, while his bride is twiddling her marriage ring on her pocket-handkerchief; and listening with rueful countenance to Counsellor Silvertongue, who has been drawing the settlements.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George