And you really have enough to do without taking all this trouble on yourself." "My dear Nancy, one must look at things from every point of view.

This girl is really worth some expense: you don't often see her equal.

She ought to make a first-rate marriage, and I should not be doing my duty if I spared my trouble in helping her forward.

You know yourself she has been under a disadvantage with such a father-in-law, and a second family, keeping her always in the shade.

I feel for the girl, And I should like your sister and her family now to have the benefit of your having married rather a better specimen of our kind than she did." "Rather better! I should think so.