'To put you out of the question, no promotion could compensate to me for what I should lose at Hampton.' 'Nonsense, man; you would lose nothing.

Faith, I don't know whether it is not I that should lose, if I were successful at your expense.' 'How would Gertrude receive me ?' said Alaric, pushing the matter further than he perhaps should have done.
'We won't mind Gertrude,' said Norman, with a little shade of black upon his brow.

'You are an older man than I, and therefore promotion is to you of more importance than to me.

You are also a poorer man.

I have some means besides that drawn from my office, which, if I marry, I can settle on my wife; you have none such.