17/21 Old Corbet, I must say, is trying to make a good bargain for his son. It is well for me that I have never been an extravagant man." "But, papa, we don't want all this much." "Yes, yes! it is all right. You shall go into their family as a well- portioned girl, if you can't go as a Lady Maria. Come, don't trouble your little head any more about it. Give me one more kiss, and then we'll go and order the horses, and have a ride together, by way of keeping holiday. |