... Strange to say, Harry took this advice — a thing he was never known to do before or since — and got the last boat from Charleston. As he was going up the gang-plank he happened to see Miss Sarah Matilda Grayson, a young cousin of my mother's, and "she looked so pretty and rosy" that he proposed then and there, with a "Tilly, will you marry me?" which she found agreeable.
She was the daughter of the Honorable William Grayson, of Charleston. (I believe Mattie, as we always called her, came near being named Gardenia Garden, after our relation Doctor Garden and the well-known flower named in his honor by Linnaeus.) ...
