Excerpt: ?If I hadn?t heard it from Mrs. Clay herself, I never would have believed it! To think that John Beacham, who?s a sensible man as men go, should be marrying an Irishwoman! If Honor Blake was English-born now, one wouldn?t blame him so much; but to choose a girl that comes of people who, as everyone knows, you can?t trust farther than you can see them, is what I call a sin and a shame.? Th...