I tell you what, George, she is a girl in a hundred,--a girl in a hundred.

She is going to marry a rich man, and so it don't much signify; but if she married a poor man, she would be as good as a fortune to him.

She'd make a fortune for any man.

That's my belief.

There is nothing she doesn't know, and nothing she doesn't understand.' Why did his father tell him all this?
George thought of the day on which his father had, as he was accustomed to say to himself, turned him out of the house because he wanted to marry this girl who was 'as good as a fortune' to any man.