What's the use of my thinking of her at all?
She'd never go to the Colonies, and live in a log but and make cheeses, while I tore about on horseback gathering cattle." "I don't think she would," observed Edward, emphatically; "I don't think she would." "And I shall never have money.

Confound stingy parents! It's a question whether I shall get Wrexby: there's no entail.

I'm heir to the governor's temper and his gout, I dare say.

He'll do as he likes with the estate.

I call it beastly unfair." Edward asked how much the opal had cost.
"Oh, nothing," said Algernon; "that is, I never pay for jewellery." Edward was curious to know how he managed to obtain it.
"Why, you see," Algernon explained, "they, the jewellers--I've got two or three in hand--the fellows are acquainted with my position, and they speculate on my expectations.