My dearest, dearest Clara! What a happy arrangement! What a success! It is just as it should be.

Dear, good man! to come forward in that sensible way, and put an end to all the little family difficulties!" "I don't know so much about success.

Who is it that is successful ?" "You, to be sure." "Then by the same measurement he must be unsuccessful." "Don't be a fool, Clara." "Of course I have been successful if I've got a man that I can love as my husband." "Now, my dear, don't be a fool.

Of course all that is between you and him, and I don't in the least doubt that it is all as it should be.
If Captain Aylmer had been the elder brother instead of the younger, and had all the Aylmer estates instead of the Perivale property, I know you would not accept him if you did not like him." "I hope not." "I am sure you would not.

But when a girl with nothing a year has managed to love a man with two or three thousand a year, and has managed to be loved by him in return,--instead of going through the same process with the curate or village doctor,--it is a success, and her friends will always think so.