And then Lady Holmhurst departed also, and left Eustace and Augusta alone.
"Life is a queer thing," said Eustace; "here this morning I was a publisher's reader at L180 a year; and now, to-night, if this verdict holds, it seems that I am one of the wealthiest men in England." "Yes, dear," said Augusta, "and with all the world at your feet, for life is full of opportunities to the rich.

You have a great future before you, Eustace; I really am ashamed to marry so rich a man." "My darling," he said, putting his arm round her; "whatever I have I owe to you.

Do you know there is only one thing that I fear about all this money, if it really comes to us; and that is that you will be so taken up with what pleasure-seeking people call social duties, and the distribution of it, that you will give up your writing.

So many women are like that.

Whatever ability they have seems to vanish utterly away upon their wedding-day.