And, moreover, his cousin was only one year older than himself, and the great prize, if it came his way, might not come for forty years as yet.

Nevertheless his hand might now be acceptable in quarters where it would certainly be rejected had Lady Glencora possessed that cradle up-stairs.

We cannot but suppose that he must have made some calculations of this nature.
"It is a pity you should do nothing all your life," his cousin Plantagenet said to him one morning just at this time.

Jeffrey had sought the interview in his cousin's room, and I fear had done so with some slight request for ready money.
"What am I to do ?" said Jeffrey.
"At any rate you might marry." "Oh, yes;--I could marry.

There's no man so poor but what he can do that.