Passion, he had not a notion of: otherwise he would not be delaying; the interview, dramatized by the father of the young bud of womanhood, would be taking place, and the entry into Lakelands calculable, for Nataly's comfort, as under the aegis of the Cantor earldom.

Gossip flies to a wider circle round the members of a great titled family, is inaudible; or no longer the diptherian whisper the commonalty hear of the commonalty: and so we see the social uses of our aristocracy survive.

We do not want the shield of any family; it is the situation that wants it; Nataly ought to be awake to the fact.

One blow and we have silenced our enemy: Nesta's wedding-day has relieved her parents.
Victor's thoughts upon the instrument for striking that, blow, led him to suppose Mr.Sowerby might be meditating on the extent of the young lady's fortune.

He talked randomly of money, in a way to shatter Nataly's conception of him.