Of course you are; and for his sake you are bound to cultivate any advantages that naturally belong to you.

As to Lady Midlothian or the marchioness coming to call on you here in your father's house, after all that has passed, you really have no right to look for it." "And I don't look for it." "That sort of people are not expected to call.

If you'll think of it, how could they do it with all the demands they have on their time ?" "My dear aunt, I wouldn't interfere with their time for worlds." "Nobody can say of me, I'm sure, that I run after great people or rich people.

It does happen that some of the nearest relations I have,--indeed I may say the nearest relations,--are people of high rank; and I do not see that I'm bound to turn away from my own flesh and blood because of that, particularly when they are always so anxious to keep up the connexion." "I was only speaking of myself, aunt.

It is very different with you.
You have known them all your life." "And how are you to know them if you won't begin?
Lady Midlothian said to me only yesterday that she was glad to hear that you were going to be married so respectably, and then--" "Upon my word I'm very much obliged to her ladyship.