human
She is in the main, however, a charming creature, charming when I married her--a perfect angel. Still charming, though less angelic, I'll allow, at times.
gpt
You doubt my assertion! Wait until you have been married as long as I have, thirty years or more, and you'll understand what's what. You are not married, I conclude, Captain Rogers?
human
I have the happiness of being so, although we poor sailors are not allowed to carry our wives and families with us, as you military men have the privilege of doing.
gpt
That will be a disappointment to Eugenia and Angelica, observed the major, apparently speaking to himself.
human
They fully speculated on your being a bachelor. You have some bachelor officers, however, captain?
gpt
Oh, yes, answered Jack laughing;
human
That's some consolation, at all events. If there's one thing I have at heart more than another, it is to see my charming daughters well married.
gpt
I wish you every success in so laudable an object, said Jack,
human
Ah, but my daughters would not consider them too young, said the major.
gpt
Angelica once engaged herself to a young gentleman of seventeen, and would have married him too had not his father, who objected to the match, sent him off up the country, and the poor girl for a month at least could not hold up her head. It was not until a fresh regiment arrived that she in any way recovered her usual buoyant spirits, and had no less than three admirers at once dangling after her. One was so old that she could not make up her mind to accept him. Another was over head and ears in debt, and asked me to pay his bills, on condition that he would take my daughter off my hands, and a third had, I found out, an unacknowledged wife. So you see my sweet Angelica is perfectly free to give her heart and hand to the first person who asks her.