Only a girl like that will sometimes make a disgraceful match; and we should all feel that." "I don't think Emily will do anything disgraceful," said Lady Wharton.

And so they parted.
In the meantime the two brothers were smoking their pipes in the housekeeper's room, which, at Wharton, when the Fletchers or Everett were there, was freely used for that purpose.
"Isn't it rather quaint of you," said the elder brother, "coming down here in the middle of term time ?" "It doesn't matter much." "I should have thought it would matter;--that is, if you mean to go on with it." "I'm not going to make a slave of myself about it, if you mean that.
I don't suppose I shall ever marry,--and as for rising to be a swell in the profession, I don't care about it." "You used to care about it,--very much.

You used to say that if you didn't get to the top it shouldn't be your own fault." "And I have worked;--and I do work.

But things get changed somehow.
I've half a mind to give it all up,--to raise a lot of money, and to start off with a resolution to see every corner of the world.

I suppose a man could do it in about thirty years if he lived so long.
It's the kind of thing would suit me." "Exactly.