You can try--perhaps she will really be good.

But then you'll be short of means.

You will kill yourself with work, and you will ruin her, too.

Marriage is an impossible thing for us.

Do you mean to say that we can support a family on such earnings?
Here, you see, I have only been married four years, and my end is near.
I have seen no joy--nothing but worry and care." He began to cough, coughed for a long time, with a groan, and when he had ceased, he said to his comrade in a choking voice: "Drop it, nothing will come of it!" His interlocutor bent his head mournfully, while Foma thought: "He speaks sensibly.