She's a very nice girl and all that, and I like her amazingly.

If she were Jack's wife, I never saw a girl I should so much like for a sister." "It is quite out of the question.

I wonder that you can speak in such a way.

What right can your brother have to think of such a girl as Miss Mellerby?
He has no position;--no means." "He is my brother," said Fred, with a little touch of anger,--already discounting his future earldom on his brother's behalf.
"Yes;--he is your brother; but you don't suppose that Mr.Mellerby would give his daughter to an officer in the Engineers who has, as far as I know, no private means whatever." "He will have,--when my mother dies.

Of course I can't speak of doing anything for anybody at present.