I only say, it will be then time enough to consider the matter." "Uncle, this will not do for me.

Either you sanction, or you do not.

You mean something by that word _pretensions_ which I am yet to understand; my name is Colleton, like your own, and--" There was a stern resolve in the countenance of the colonel, which spoke of something of the same temper with his impetuous nephew, and the cool and haughty sentence which fell from his lips in reply, while arresting that of the youth, was galling to the proud spirit of the latter, whom it chafed nearly into madness.
"Why, true, Ralph, such is your name indeed; and your reference to this subject now, only reminds me of the too free use which my brother made of it when he bestowed it upon a woman so far beneath him and his family in all possible respects." "There again, sir, there again! It is my mother's poverty that pains you.

She brought my father no dowry.

He had nothing of that choice prudence which seems to have been the guide of others, of our family in the bestowment of their affections.