A beautiful woman, a clever woman, a woman of unblemished character, and a woman who truly loves you.

Man alive! what do you want more ?" "I want a great deal more.

I want a woman highly connected and highly bred--a woman who can receive the best society in England, and open her husband's way to a position in the world." "A position in the world!" cried Mr.Kendrew.

"Here is a man whose father has left him half a million of money--with the one condition annexed to it of taking his father's place at the head of one of the greatest mercantile houses in England.

And he talks about a position, as if he was a junior clerk in his own office! What on earth does your ambition see, beyond what your ambition has already got ?" Mr.Vanborough finished his glass of wine, and looked his friend steadily in the face.
"My ambition," he said, "sees a Parliamentary career, with a Peerage at the end of it--and with no obstacle in the way but my estimable wife." Mr.Kendrew lifted his hand warningly.