He is a spendthrift.

They are all for Ralph, who is a steady fellow, and going to marry a nice girl--at least, I suppose she is a nice girl.

Girls who are going to be married always _are_ nice.

Those jewels will sweeten matrimony for Mr.Ralph, and if she is like other women it will need sweetening.

There, now you have got them, and that is what you have got to do with them.