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For who would stay to be vexed by that ill-natured Miss Nancy , as you own you were , at your last writing ? -- But I will proceed , and the rather , as I have something to tell you of a conversation , the result of which has done me great honour , and given inexpressible delight ; of which in its place . We pursued Mr. B. 's proposal , returning several visits in one day ; for we have so polite and agreeable a neighbourhood , that all seem desirous to accommodate each other . We came not home till ten in the evening , and then found a letter from Sir Jacob Swynford , uncle by the half blood to Mr. B. , acquainting him , that hearing his niece , Lady Davers , was with him , he would be here in a day or two -LRB- being then upon his journey -RRB- to pay a visit to both at the same time . This gentleman is very particularly odd and humoursome : and his eldest son being next heir to the maternal estate , if Mr. B. should have no children , was exceedingly dissatisfied with his debasing himself in marrying me ; and would have been better pleased had he not married at all , perhaps . There never was any cordial love between Mr. B. 's father and him , nor between the uncle , and nephew and niece : for his positiveness , roughness , and self-interestedness too , has made him , though very rich , but little agreeable to the generous tempers of his nephew and niece ; yet when they meet , which is not above once in four or five years , they are very civil and obliging to him . Lady Davers wondered what could bring him hither now : for he lives in Herefordshire , and seldom stirs ten miles from home .