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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER XVIII
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My ambition shall be to make you shine in that circle which you are so well qualified to adorn, and to see you firmly fixed in that sphere of fashion for which all your tastes adapt you.
I may safely assert--and I do assert it with my hand on my heart--that I am actuated by no mercenary motives.

Far be it from me to marry any woman--no, not a princess--on account of her money.

No marriage can be happy without mutual affection; and I do fully trust--no, not trust, but hope--that there may be such between you and me, dearest Miss Dunstable.

Whatever settlements you might propose, I should accede to.

It is you, your sweet person, that I love, not your money.
For myself, I need not remind you that I am the second son of my father; and that, as such, I hold no inconsiderable station in the world.


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