Business might spoil that; and at any rate I won't chance it.

And, after all, my step-mother won't live to much more than eighty, so that he will have thirty thousand a year before he's forty-five." "That's a hundred and fifty thousand dollars," said Septimus Rainer thoughtfully, and he pressed the point no more.
He was far too shrewd not to perceive the attraction Sir Tancred and Dorothy had for one another, and he regarded it with entire content.
Whatever he might have said against Sir Tancred's manner of life, he had a genuine respect for his qualities; and he had learned from Dorothy something of the causes of his falling into that manner of life.

He had a strong belief that once married to her he would change; he thought it likely that he might even embark on the career of politics, which he understood to be, in England, a quite respectable pursuit.

He was aware, of course, that he could easily buy her an English peer or a foreign Prince for husband.

But Sir Tancred's rank and birth satisfied his simple tastes; and he was quite sure that he might ransack the English peerage and the Courts of Europe without finding her as good a husband.