Mr Farquhar's connexion with the firm would be convenient and agreeable to me in a pecuniary point of view.

He--" Mr Bradshaw was going on in his enumeration of the advantages which he in particular, and Jemima in the second place, would derive from this marriage, when his daughter spoke, at first so low that he could not hear her, as he walked up and down the room with his creaking boots, and he had to stop to listen.
"Has Mr Farquhar ever spoken to you about it ?" Jemima's cheek was flushed as she asked the question; she wished that she might have been the person to whom he had first addressed himself.
Mr Bradshaw answered, "No, not spoken.

It has been implied between us for some time.

At least, I have been so aware of his intentions that I have made several allusions, in the course of business, to it, as a thing that might take place.

He can hardly have misunderstood; he must have seen that I perceived his design, and approved of it," said Mr Bradshaw, rather doubtfully; as he remembered how very little, in fact, passed between him and his partner which could have reference to the subject, to any but a mind prepared to receive it.