You give your consent to remain here, for six months.

By that time the question will have solved itself.

If I am wrong, no harm will have been done.

If I am right, the arrangement will be, as he says, a satisfactory one to us all." "I was always against cousins marrying," Mr.Lindsay said, doubtfully.
"Don't be absurd, Peter.

I don't say that, in some cases, there is not a good deal to be said against it; but where both the man and the woman are healthy, and come of healthy families, no union can be more likely to be happy." "But I think I have heard you speak--" "Never mind what you have heard me speak, sir; circumstances alter cases, and this case is altogether an exceptional one.
"We certainly could not wish for a finer young fellow as Mary's husband.