With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes.
Her talk was of almshouses and free libraries, of charities and of improvements.

He had never a scheme to which she could not add some detail making it more complete and more effective.

To Haw it seemed that at last he had met a mind which was in absolute affinity with his own.
Here was a help-mate, who could not only follow, but even lead him in the path which he had chosen.
Neither Robert nor his father could fail to see what was going forward, but to the latter nothing could possibly be more acceptable than a family tie which should connect him, however indirectly, with a man of vast fortune.

The glamour of the gold bags had crept over Robert also, and froze the remonstrance upon his lips.

It was very pleasant to have the handling of all this wealth, even as a mere agent.