If he be liberal, her gratitude rises proportionably.

If he be a churl, she must submit with Christian resignation.
The gossips at a noted watering-place where I once spent a summer, found infinite amusement in the ways of a married heiress, whose fortune was settled so securely upon herself by her father that her husband could not touch the bulk of it with, or without her consent.
Her spouse was an ease-loving man of fashion, and accommodated himself gracefully to this order of things.

She loved him better than she loved her money, for she "kept" him well and grudged him nothing.

It was in accordance with her wishes that he made no pretence of business or profession.

"Why should he when she had enough for both ?" she urged, amiably.