If I were lucky enough to be taken on as a buyer, I might make--why, some make many hundreds a year--many hundreds.' 'And you would ask me to wait on and on for one of these wonderful chances ?' 'If I could move your feelings, Miss Madden,' he began, with a certain dolorous dignity; but there his voice broke.

He saw too plainly that the girl had neither faith in him nor liking for him.
'Mr.Bullivant, I think you ought to wait until you really have prospects.

If you were encouraged by some person, it would be a different thing.

And indeed you haven't to look far.

But where there has never been the slightest encouragement, you are really wrong to act in this way.