The consequence was, that no sooner were the guests departed, than I was doomed to a very serious remonstrance, which unpleasantly checked the galloping course of my spirits, and made a disagreeable close to the evening.
'My dear Gilbert,' said she, 'I wish you wouldn't do so! You know how deeply I have your advantage at heart, how I love you and prize you above everything else in the world, and how much I long to see you well settled in life--and how bitterly it would grieve me to see you married to that girl--or any other in the neighbourhood.

What you see in her I don't know.

It isn't only the want of money that I think about--nothing of the kind--but there's neither beauty, nor cleverness, nor goodness, nor anything else that's desirable.

If you knew your own value, as I do, you wouldn't dream of it.

Do wait awhile and see! If you bind yourself to her, you'll repent it all your lifetime when you look round and see how many better there are.