Money, money, was all that he wanted.

Her father was a grazier, her grandfather had been a butcher, but that was all nothing.

She was a fine woman, had had a decent education, was brought forward by some cousins, thrown by chance into Mr Elliot's company, and fell in love with him; and not a difficulty or a scruple was there on his side, with respect to her birth.

All his caution was spent in being secured of the real amount of her fortune, before he committed himself.

Depend upon it, whatever esteem Mr Elliot may have for his own situation in life now, as a young man he had not the smallest value for it.