"I will give you a handsome wedding present, Lucy, for you may have heard that my future wife has money left to her by her brother, who was lately a merchant in Pekin.

She is heart and hand with me in our proposed expedition to Egypt." "Will you go there for the honeymoon, sir ?" asked Hope.
"Not exactly for the honeymoon, since we are to be married in spring, and my expedition to the tomb of Queen Tahoser cannot start until the late autumn.

But Mrs.Braddock will come with me.

That is only just, since it will be her money which will furnish the sinews of war." "Well, everything is arranged very well," said Lucy.

"I marry Archie; you, father, make Mrs.Jasher your wife; and I suspect Sir Frank will marry Donna Inez." "Ha!" said Braddock with a start, "the daughter of De Gayangos, who has come here for the missing mummy.