I almost wish she was to have nothing." "I shouldn't refuse it if I were you." "Of course, I shan't refuse it; but what I mean is that I never thought about it when I asked her to have me; and I shouldn't have been a bit more likely to ask her if she had ten times as much." "A fortune with one's wife isn't a bad thing for a poor man, Harry." "But a poor man must be poor in more senses than one when he looks about to get a fortune in that way." "I suppose you won't marry just yet," said the father.

"Including everything, you would not have five hundred a year, and that would be very close work in London." "It's not quite decided yet, sir.

As far as I am myself concerned, I think that people are a great deal too prudent about money, I believe I could live as a married man on a hundred a year, if I had no more; and as for London, I don't see why London should be more expensive than any other place.

You can get exactly what you want in London, and make your halfpence go farther there than anywhere else." "And your sovereigns go quicker," said the rector.
"All that is wanted," said Harry, "is the will to live on your income, and a little firmness in carrying out your plans." The rector of Clavering, as he heard all this wisdom fall from his son's lips, looked at Harry's expensive clothes, at the ring on his finger, at the gold chain on his waistcoat, at the studs in his shirt, and smiled gently.

He was by no means so clever a man as his son, but he knew something more of the world, and though not much given to general reading, he had read his son's character.