Well, there is plenty before you besides society and club life.

Of course, you will marry and settle down, and become a county magistrate and all that sort of thing.

Thank goodness, what money came to me came in the shape of consols, and not in that of land.

A country life would be exile to me; but, you see, you have left the army much younger than I did.

I suppose you are not thirty yet?
The Crimea and India ran you fast up the tree." "No, I am only twenty-eight.