You," he said, turning to me, "can put the case to your wife, and get the young lady's ideal.

Let Brown write to his sister at Newnham, and find out whom the intellectual maiden favours, while Jephson can learn from Miss Medbury what is most attractive to the common-sensed girl." This plan we had adopted, and the result was now under consideration.
MacShaughnassy opened the proceedings by reading his aunt's letter.

Wrote the old lady: "I think, if I were you, my dear boy, I should choose a soldier.

You know your poor grandfather, who ran away to America with that _wicked_ Mrs.Featherly, the banker's wife, was a soldier, and so was your poor cousin Robert, who lost eight thousand pounds at Monte Carlo.

I have always felt singularly drawn towards soldiers, even as a girl; though your poor dear uncle could not bear them.