Now I'd willingly marry Mary without a penny, but Ella, with only one quarter as much as I expected, and that not until she's twenty-one, is a different matter entirely.

But what am I to do?
I wish Moreland was here, for though he don't like me (and I wonder who does), he wouldn't mind lending me a few thousand.

Well, there's no help for it; and the sooner the old man breaks now, the better.

It'll help me out of a deuced mean scrape, for of course I shall be _magnanimous_, and release Ella at once from her engagement with a _ruined man_." The news that Mary was Mrs.Campbell's niece spread rapidly, and among those who came to congratulate her, none was more sincere than William Bender.

Mary was very dear to him, and whatever conduced to her happiness added also to his.