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"Neither plain nor positively handsome" is a hell of a self-descriptor
Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser
Mar 25, 1882 and yet he requires the young lady to be "very good looking" mm-hmmm 😒 "soon going abroad to reside some years"
This sounds like the guy Penelope almost marries in Bridgerton season 3! This seems like the kind of "woman wanted" ad you get after Elon Musk buys your newspaper.