Hester will be well off, no doubt, some day.' 'She will have something,--something,' said the old man.
'But this suitor asks for nothing.

It is not as though he were coming to you to prop him up in the world.

It does not look like that at least.

Of course, we ought to make inquiry as to his means.' 'The mortgage has been paid off.' 'So much we know, and the rest may be found out.

I do not mean at all to say that he should be allowed to have his own way.