She had evidently yielded the point.

The horse was out of the question.
Now the state of the country did not so entirely engross her husband's mind, that he had not seen all the advantage of Hope's marrying Alfred.
"It _is_ a pleasant thing for a young man to have his own horse.

My dear, I will see what can be done," said he.
Then the diplomatist untied his cravat as if he had been undoing the parchment of a great treaty.

He fell asleep in the midst of rehearsing the speech which he meant to make upon occasion of his presentation as foreign minister somewhere; while his beloved partner lay by his side, and resolved that Alfred Dinks must immediately secure Hope Wayne before Fanny Newt secured Alfred Dinks..