He had himself been struck by her good looks and her stylish air, and learning that there could be no doubt about her fortune, he lost no time in making his advances.

Before the end of the first week of their acquaintance he proposed.

She referred him to her brother before she could consent; and though, when Kostalergi inquired amongst her English friends, none had ever heard of a Lord Kilgobbin, the fact of his being Irish explained their ignorance, not to say that Kearney's reply, being a positive refusal of consent, so fully satisfied the Greek that it was 'a good thing,' he pressed his suit with a most passionate ardour: threatened to kill himself if she persisted in rejecting him, and so worked upon her heart by his devotion, or on her pride by the thought of his position, that she yielded, and within three weeks from the day they first met, she became the Princess of Delos.
When a Greek, holding any public employ, marries money, his Government is usually prudent enough to promote him.

It is a recognition of the merit that others have discovered, and a wise administration marches with the inventions of the age it lives in.

Kostalergi's chief was consequently recalled, suffered to fall back upon his previous obscurity--he had been a commission-agent for a house in the Greek trade--and the Prince of Delos gazetted as Minister Plenipotentiary of Greece, with the first class of St.Salvador, in recognition of his services to the state; no one being indiscreet enough to add that the aforesaid services were comprised in marrying an Irishwoman with a dowry of--to quote the _Athenian Hemera_--'three hundred and fifty thousand drachmas.' For a while--it was a very brief while--the romantic mind of the Irish girl was raised to a sort of transport of enjoyment.