Look you, Mr .-- what's your name, sir ?" "Dale." "Mr.Dale, look you, I'm a single man.

Perhaps I may marry some day; perhaps I sha' n't.

I'm not going to throw myself away.

If I can get a lady of quality, why--but that's neither here nor there; meanwhile I should be glad of a nephew whom I need not be ashamed of.

You see, sir, I am a new man, the builder of my own fortunes; and though I have picked up a little education--I don't well know how,--as I scramble on still, now I come back to the old country, I'm well aware that I 'm not exactly a match for those d---d aristocrats; don't show so well in a drawing-room as I could wish.