I did not know what a lot of pain it would cost to tear myself from you.
And I did not know that my stingy uncle--heaven forgive me calling him so!--would so flatly refuse to advance me money for my purpose--the scheme of travelling with a first-rate tutor costing a formidable sum o' money.

You have no idea what it would cost!' 'But I have said that I'll find the money.' 'Ah, there,' he returned, 'you have hit a sore place.

To speak truly, dear, I would rather stay unpolished a hundred years than take your money.' 'But why?
Men continually use the money of the women they marry.' 'Yes; but not till afterwards.

No man would like to touch your money at present, and I should feel very mean if I were to do so in present circumstances.

That brings me to what I was going to propose.