This is rather a surprise to me." "Why should it surprise you?
You must suppose me designed for some profession, and might perceive that I am neither a lawyer, nor a soldier, nor a sailor." "Very true; but, in short, it had not occurred to me.

And you know there is generally an uncle or a grandfather to leave a fortune to the second son." "A very praiseworthy practice," said Edmund, "but not quite universal.
I am one of the exceptions, and _being_ one, must do something for myself." "But why are you to be a clergyman?
I thought _that_ was always the lot of the youngest, where there were many to chuse before him." "Do you think the church itself never chosen, then ?" "_Never_ is a black word.

But yes, in the _never_ of conversation, which means _not_ _very_ _often_, I do think it.

For what is to be done in the church?
Men love to distinguish themselves, and in either of the other lines distinction may be gained, but not in the church.

A clergyman is nothing." "The _nothing_ of conversation has its gradations, I hope, as well as the _never_.