That he could effect all this he did not doubt, but he did not wish to effect it for nothing.

He did not wish to give way to Mr.Harding and then be rejected by the daughter.

He did not wish to lose one influential friend before he had gained another.
And thus he rode home, meditating many things in his mind.

It occurred to him that Mrs.Bold was sister-in-law to the archdeacon, and that not even for twelve hundred a year would he submit to that imperious man.

A rich wife was a great desideratum to him, but success in his profession was still greater; there were, moreover, other rich women who might be willing to become wives; and after all, this twelve hundred a year might, when inquired into, melt away into some small sum utterly beneath his notice.