The man was worth six or seven hundred a year, and had a good house, and owed no one a shilling.

He was handsome, and about the best-tempered fellow known.

Of course they all desired that he should prevail with Mary.

"I wish that I were old enough, Larry, that's all!" Kate had said to him once, laughing.

"I wouldn't have you, if you were ever so old," Larry had replied; "you'd want to be out hunting every day." That will show the sort of terms that Larry was on with his friend Kate.