The question would be how I might like the subsequent starvation." "I don't see that you need starve.

Though your own fortune is small, it is something,--and many girls have fortunes of their own." Jeffrey thought of Lady Glencora, but he made no allusion to her in speech.

"I don't think I'm very good at that kind of thing," he said.
"When the father and mother came to ask of my house and my home I should break down.

I don't say it as praising myself;--indeed, quite the reverse; but I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." "That's nonsense." "Oh, yes; quite so.

I admit that." "Men must have mercenary tendencies or they would not have bread.