I'm a jolly, laughing sort of fellow; and yet, do you know, Caudle, when that girl marries, it will be all up with me.

It will, indeed." "Do you mean that you'll cut your throat ?" "No; I shan't do that.

I shan't do anything of that sort; and yet it will be all up with me." "You are going down there in October;--why don't you ask her to have you ?" "With ninety pounds a year!" His grateful country had twice increased his salary at the rate of five pounds each year.

"With ninety pounds a year, and twenty allowed me by my mother!" "She could wait, I suppose.

I should ask her, and no mistake.