A woman, too generally, has no other way of living." "But Bertie has no other way of living," said Charlotte.
"Then, in God's name, let him marry Mrs.Bold," said Madeline.

And so it was settled between them.
But let the gentle-hearted reader be under no apprehension whatsoever.

It is not destined that Eleanor shall marry Mr.Slope or Bertie Stanhope.

And here perhaps it may be allowed to the novelist to explain his views on a very important point in the art of telling tales.

He ventures to reprobate that system which goes so far to violate all proper confidence between the author and his readers by maintaining nearly to the end of the third volume a mystery as to the fate of their favourite personage.