Do you know those two girls at Chaldicotes ?" "What, Mrs.Thorne's nieces ?" "No; they are not her nieces but her cousins.

Emily Dunstable is very handsome;--and as for money--!" "But what about birth, mother ?" "One can't have everything, my dear." "As far as I am concerned, I should like to have everything or nothing," the major had said laughing.

Now for him to think of Grace Crawley after that,--of Grace Crawley who had no money, and no particular birth, and not even beauty itself,--so at least Mrs.
Grantly said,--who had not even enjoyed the ordinary education of a lady, was too bad.

Nothing had been wanting to Emily Dunstable's education, and it was calculated that she would have at least twenty thousand pounds on the day of her marriage.
The disappointment to the mother would be the more sore because she had gone to work upon her little scheme with reference to Miss Emily Dunstable, and had at first, as she thought, seen her way to success,--to success in spite of the disparaging words which her son had spoken to her.

Mrs.Thorne's house at Chaldicotes,--or Dr.
Thorne's house as it should, perhaps, be more properly called, for Dr.Thorne was the husband of Mrs.Thorne,--was in these days the pleasantest house in Barsetshire.