She intimated her wishes, and, as they were always possible of gratification, obtained them as a matter of course.

Naturally, since their marriage, she and Hugh had lived to the full extent of their means.

Carnaby had reduced his capital by a couple of thousand pounds in preliminary expenses, and debt to the amount of two or three hundred was outstanding at the end of the first twelvemonth; but Sibyl manifested no alarm.
'We have been great fools,' she said, alluding to their faith in Bennet Frothingham.
'It's certain that _I_ have,' replied her husband.

'I oughtn't to have let your mother have her way about that money.

If there had been a proper settlement, you would have run no risk.