Her statement to himself on that head made him feel that he should not hesitate on the score of money.

They neither had any, and he was willing to work for both.

If she feared the risk, let her say so.
It was thus that he argued with himself; but yet he knew,--knew as well as the reader will know,--that he was going to do that which he had no right to do.

It might be very well for him to wait,--presuming him to be successful in his love,--for the opening of that oyster with his political sword, that oyster on which he proposed that they should both live; but such waiting could not well be to the taste of Lady Laura Standish.

It could hardly be pleasant to her to look forward to his being made a junior lord or an assistant secretary before she could establish herself in her home.