Frederick Bullock, Esq., of the house of Bullock, Hulker, and Bullock, had married Maria Osborne, not without a great deal of difficulty and grumbling on Mr. Bullocks part. George being dead and cut out of his fathers will, Frederick insisted that the half of the old gentlemans property should be settled upon his Maria, and indeed, for a long time, refused, to come to the scratch (it was Mr. Fredericks own expression) on any other terms. Osborne said Fred had agreed to take his daughter with twenty thousand, and he should bind himself to no more. Fred might take it, and welcome, or leave it, and go and be hanged. Fred, whose hopes had been raised when George had been disinherited, thought himself infamously swindled by the old merchant, and for some time made as if he would break off the m
