But I don't think the way to get her would be to throw up everything and let all the world know that I haven't got a copper.

To do that kind of thing a man must live a little up to the mark.

I've brought my hunting down to a minimum, but if I gave it up altogether there would be lots of fellows to tell them in Grosvenor Square why I had done so.' There was an apparent truth in this argument which the poor woman was unable to answer.

Before the interview was over the money demanded was forthcoming, though at the time it could be but ill afforded, and the youth went away apparently with a light heart, hardly listening to his mother's entreaties that the affair with Marie Melmotte might, if possible, be brought to a speedy conclusion.
Felix, when he left his mother, went down to the only club to which he now belonged.

Clubs are pleasant resorts in all respects but one.