Your question is purely mercenary, I take it: you want to know his true worth before proceeding further with the daughter.

I cannot inform you, though I notice signs of considerable prosperity in that becoming dress of hers.

However, you never can tell, it is an age when every sacrifice is made for the young, and how your own poor mother managed to provide those genuine pearl studs for you out of her allowance from father, I can't--" "Oh, dry up!" said the nephew.

"I understand this Morgan--" "Mr.Eugene Morgan," his uncle suggested.

"Politeness requires that the young should--" "I guess the 'young' didn't know much about politeness in your day," George interrupted.