Quite right.

Pray do not discourage him--if you find time to write.

But between you and me, my dear Miss Chyne, fortunes are not made in Africa.

I am an old man, and I have some experience of the world.
That part of it which is called Africa is not the place where fortunes are made.

It is as different from India as chalk is from cheese, if you will permit so vulgar a simile." Millicent's face dropped.
"But SOME people have made fortunes there." "Yes--in slaves! But that interesting commerce is at an end.