It is not necessary that you should marry a girl with any fortune." "I suppose not, Uncle Scroope." "But I understand that this young lady is quite beneath yourself in life.

She lives with her mother in a little cottage, without servants,--" "There is a servant." "You know what I mean, Fred.

She does not live as ladies live.

She is uneducated." "You are wrong there, my lord.

She has been at an excellent school in France." "In France! Who was her father, and what ?" "I do not know what her father was;--a Captain O'Hara, I believe." "And you would marry such a girl as that;--a Roman Catholic; picked up on the Irish coast,--one of whom nobody knows even her parentage or perhaps her real name?
It would kill me, Fred." "I have not said that I mean to marry her." "But what do you mean?
Would you ruin her;--seduce her by false promises and then leave her?
Do you tell me that in cold blood you look forward to such a deed as that ?" "Certainly not." "I hope not, my boy; I hope not that.