When the gloom of my uncle's death has passed away, I suppose I shall buy a few more horses and perhaps begin to make a row about the pheasants.

I don't know what else there is to do." "You'll find that there are duties." "I suppose I shall.

Something is expected of me.

I am to keep up the honour of the family; but it really seems to me that the best way of doing so would be to sit in my uncle's arm chair and go to sleep as he did." "As a first step in doing something you should get a wife for yourself.
If once you had a settled home, things would arrange themselves round you very easily." "Ah, yes;--a wife.

You know, Jack, I told you about that girl in County Clare." "You must let nothing of that kind stand in your way." "Those are your ideas of high moral grandeur! Just now my own personal conduct was to be all in all to me, and the rank nothing.