He saw how indiscreet it was confiding in Miss Trickery's cousin, the major; why the rich widow at Chesterfield had _chasseed_ him; and how he was done out of the beautiful Miss Rainbow, with her beautiful estate, with its lake, its heronry, and its perpetual advowson.

Other mishaps he also considered.
Having disposed of the past, he then turned his attention to the future.
Here were two beautiful girls apparently full of money, between whom there wasn't the toss-up of a halfpenny for choice.

Most exemplary parents, too, who didn't seem to care a farthing about money.
He then began speculating on what the girls would have.

'Great house--great establishment--great estate, doubtless.

Why, confound it,' continued he, casting his heavy eye lazily around, 'here's a room as big as a field in a cramped country! Can't have less than fifty thousand a-piece, I should say, at the least.