Every man you meet is more the dand than his father; and you are just level wi' her.' 'That's what she thinks herself.' 'It only shows her sense.

I knew she was after 'ee, Stephen--I knew it.' 'After me! Good Lord, what next!' 'And I really must say again that you ought not to be in such a hurry, and wait for a few years.

You might go higher than a bankrupt pa'son's girl then.' 'The fact is, mother,' said Stephen impatiently, 'you don't know anything about it.

I shall never go higher, because I don't want to, nor should I if I lived to be a hundred.

As to you saying that she's after me, I don't like such a remark about her, for it implies a scheming woman, and a man worth scheming for, both of which are not only untrue, but ludicrously untrue, of this case.