You will be rich some day.

Who is this girl without family, without dower to make you fear or hesitate?
What says the proverb?
'A bone for my dog, a stick for my wife.'" "Yes, that is all right," muttered Samuel, "a stick for my wife, and if she were my wife I would soon bring her to time." "Ho, ho," said Rosenblatt, "it is all the same, sweetheart and wife.

They are both much the better for a stick now and then.
You are not the kind of man to stand beggar before a portionless Slovak girl, a young man handsome, clever, well-to-do.

You do not need thus to humble yourself.

Go in, my son, with more courage and with bolder tactics.