Acrostic on Mrs Augusta Elton's Name

The question posed was:

In Jane Austen's "Emma", at the Box Hill excursion (chapter 43), Mrs Elton says
"I had an acrostic once sent to me upon my own name which I was not at all pleased with. I knew who it came from. An abominable puppy! You know who I mean" (nodding to her husband).

What was this acrostic? Mrs Elton was Augusta Hawkins before her marriage to Mr Elton, so the acrostic might be from any of the following forms of her name: AUGUSTA HAWKINS, MISS HAWKINS, MISS AUGUSTA HAWKINS, MRS ELTON, AUGUSTA ELTON, MRS AUGUSTA ELTON.

ANSWERS

Of course there is no "right" answer. Have fun. Here are a couple of suggestions to get you under way.

"An ugly girl uses slave trade annuities, having wilfully kept in nefarious schemes eventually leading to overblown nuptials."
-- Natalie Tyler.

"Many rightly see an upstart girl using strident tones abrasively. Endless logorrhea torments one's nerves. Never ending excess! Might I simply suppose, however, all will kindly ignore noxious sounds?"
-- Ken Roberts.


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