HE comes down with the dust as dowry.

Good thing for Holmes.

'Stonishin' how he's made his way up.
If money 's what he wants in this world, he's making a long stride now to 't." The young doctor lighted his cigar, asserting that-- "Ba George, some low people did get on, re-markably! Mary Herne, now, was best catch in town." "Do you think money is what he wants ?" said a quiet little man, sitting lazily on a barrel,--a clergyman, Vandyke; whom his clerical brothers shook their heads when they named, but never argued with, and bowed to with uncommon deference.
The wool-buyer hesitated with a puzzled look.
"No," he said, slowly; "Stephen Holmes is not miserly.

I've knowed him since a boy.

To buy place, power, perhaps, eh?
Yet not that, neither," he added, hastily.