Besides, if it will make you happier, your uncle can doubtless pay over the dowry before a great while." "It's certainly very kind of you, Quintus," said Lentulus (who had quite made up his mind that if the young man could wait for what was a very tidy fortune, through sheer affection for Cornelia, he would be pliable enough in the political matter), "not to press me in this affair.

Rest assured, neither you nor my niece will be the losers in the end.

But there's one other thing I would like to ask you about.
From what Calvus told me in Rome, Curio and certain other still worse _Populares_[81] were trying to induce you to join their abominable faction.

I trust you gave those men no encouragement ?" [81] The party in opposition, since the time of Tiberius Gracchus, to the Senate party--Optimates; at this time the _Populares_ were practically all Caesarians.
Drusus was evidently confused.

He was wishing strongly that Cornelia was away, and he could talk to her uncle with less constraint.