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| | The Beauty of Buttermere |
 | | When any company was expected at the latter place, he was sure to have some fishing engagement, while at Keswick he only put in one appearance at church; and finally, finding that his schemes to obtain the heiress and her fortune were baffled, he transferred all his attentions to Mary Robinson. |
 | | Seeing him received in Keswick society as the scion of nobility that he pretended to be, the good folks at Buttermere never doubted his word; and he and the clergyman having procured a licence on the 1st of October, the marriage took place publicly on the 2nd of October, 1802, at Lorton Church. |
 | | "The Beauty of Buttermere" had the sympathy of every one, and before long she was married to a Cumberland yeoman named Harrison, became a happy wife and the mother of a numerous family, and died in 1834. |
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