He was too proud to dread her inconstancy for an instant; "besides," as he went on to himself, as if to make assurance doubly sure, "whom does she see?
Those stupid Holsters, who ought to be only too proud of having such a girl for their cousin, ignore her existence, and spoke slightingly of her father only the very last time I dined there.

The country people in this precisely Boeotian -- -shire clutch at me because my father goes up to the Plantagenets for his pedigree--not one whit for myself--and neglect Ellinor; and only condescend to her father because old Wilkins was nobody- knows-who's son.

So much the worse for them, but so much the better for me in this case.

I'm above their silly antiquated prejudices, and shall be only too glad when the fitting time comes to make Ellinor my wife.
After all, a prosperous attorney's daughter may not be considered an unsuitable match for me--younger son as I am.

Ellinor will make a glorious woman three or four years hence; just the style my father admires--such a figure, such limbs.