13/19 I am entirely at your ladyship's mercy.' 'Are you prepared, if your daughter is asked in marriage, to settle ten thousand pounds on her, General Ople ?' The General collected himself. In his heart he thoroughly appreciated the moral beauty of Lady Camper's extreme solicitude on behalf of his daughter's provision; but he would have desired a postponement of that and other material questions belonging to a distant future until his own fate was decided. I say it is very marked.' 'How, my good General Ople! how is it marked in any degree ?' cried Lady Camper. |