"I beg your pardon, Clara; pray go on; but it seems like a dream." "He only laughed, and said he was glad she would have so much.

The utmost they hoped, he said, was that it might be a farm, or a house or two, or a few hundreds in the stocks.

He is to bring her to-morrow, and of course I shall make her stay with me.

As for himself, he says that he is only anxious to get back home to his wife and his practice." "He wants nothing for himself, then?
That seems a good sign." "I asked him that question, and he said that he could not possibly take money for what he and his family had done for Iris; that is to say, her education and maintenance.

This was very generous of him.
Perhaps he is really a gentleman by birth, but has provincial manners.
He said, however, that he had no objection to receiving the small amount of money spent on the voyage and on Iris's outfit, because they were not rich people, and it was a serious thing to fit out a young lady suitably.