But having loved once, I should despise myself, and be unworthy of my name as a gentleman, if I hesitated to abide by my passion: if I did not give all where I felt all, and endow the woman who loves me fondly with my whole heart and my whole fortune.
"I press for a speedy marriage with my Emily--for why, in truth, should it be delayed?
A delay implies a doubt, which I cast from me as unworthy.

It is impossible that my sentiments can change towards Emily--that at any age she can be anything but the sole object of my love.

Why, then, wait?
I entreat you, my dear Uncle, to come down and reconcile my dear mother to our union, and I address you as a man of the world, qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes, who will not feel any of the weak scruples and fears which agitate a lady who has scarcely ever left her village.
"Pray, come down to us immediately.

I am quite confident that--apart from considerations of fortune--you will admire and approve of my Emily .-- Your affectionate Nephew, Arthur Pendennis, Jr." When the Major had concluded the perusal of this letter, his countenance assumed an expression of such rage and horror that Glowry, the surgeon-official, felt in his pocket for his lancet, which he always carried in his card-case, and thought his respected friend was going into a fit.

The intelligence was indeed sufficient to agitate Pendennis.
The head of the Pendennises going to marry an actress ten years his senior,--a headstrong boy going to plunge into matrimony.