It is to your relatives you are first to look for help.

It is like rubbing the bloom off a ripe peach--all the romance is gone in a moment! I had hoped that a career of adventure and glory lay before you, and behold the goal is a home beneath a wool stapler's roof!" But there Kate caught herself up and blushed, bethinking what her parents would say could they hear her words.
But Cuthbert did not read the underlying scorn in merry Kate's tones.

He was a very simple-minded youth, and his life and training had not been such as to teach him much about the various grades in the world, or how greatly these grades differed one from the other.
He was looking at his cousin's bright face with thoughtful, questioning eyes, so much so that the girl asked him of what he was thinking.
"Marry of thee, Mistress Kate," he answered; for though encouraged to speak on terms of equality with his kinsfolk, he found some difficulty in remembering to do so, and they certainly appeared to him in the light of beings from another and a higher sphere than his own.

"I was longing to ask of thee a question." "Ask on, good Master Cuthbert," was the ready reply; "I will answer to the best of my humble ability." "I have heard of this Lord Culverhouse from many beneath this roof since I have been here.

I would fain know who he is." "That is easy told.