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`` You know how angry he was with my marriage , and he said I had better have drowned myself , than have married a soldier ; and I had better have hung myself , than have married an Irishman -- specially when he had intended , all along , that I should marry the son of an old friend of his , a most excellent and well-conducted young man , with admirable prospects . But he came round in a month or two , and the first notice of it was a letter from his lawyer , saying that , in accordance with the instruction of his client , Mr. John Bale , he had drawn up and now enclosed a post-nuptial settlement , settling on me the sum of 5000 pounds consols ; and that his client wished him to say that , had I married the person he had intended for me , that sum would have been doubled . `` The idea , when I never even saw the man ! And when I wrote , thanking him , he made no allusion to what he had said before ; but wrote that he should be glad , at all times , to see my husband and myself , whenever we came to town ; but that , as I knew , his hours were regular , and the door always locked at ten o'clock -- just as if Gerald was in the habit of coming in , drunk , in the middle of the night ! Fortunately nothing puts Gerald out , and he screamed over it ; and we went and stopped a week with uncle , a month afterwards , and he and Gerald got on capitally together , considering . Gerald said it was like a bear and a monkey in one cage , but it was really very funny . `` So I have no doubt he will come round , with you .