His mother may relent, and you might go and live and have enough at Fairoaks Park.

Why not go and be a lady?
I could go on with the fiddle, and the General live on his half-pay.

Why don't you marry him?
You know he likes you." "There's others that likes me as well, Bows, that has no money and that's old enough," Miss Milly said sententiously.
"Yes, d---- it," said Bows, with a bitter curse--"that are old enough and poor enough and fools enough for anything." "There's old fools, and young fools too.

You've often said so you silly man," the imperious beauty said, with a conscious glance at the old gentleman.

"If Pendennis has not enough money to live upon, it's folly to talk about marrying him: and that's the long and short of it." "And the boy ?" said Mr.Bows.