You have everything in the world, this glorious place--an old name--money--prestige--and if your inclinations do run to the material side of things instead of the intellectual, they are still successful in their demonstration.

No one has a better eye for a horse, or is a finer shot.

The best at driven grouse for your age, my boy, I have ever seen.
You are full of force, Michael, and ought to do some decent thing--instead of which you spoil the whole outlook by fooling after this infernal woman--and you have not now the pluck to cut the Gordian knot.

She will drag you to the lowest depths----" Then he laughed.

"And only think of that voice in one's ears all day long! I would rather marry old Bessie at the South Lodge.