We can marry any fine morning that my dear girl pleases to name, and defy all the stern stepfathers in creation." "How I wish I had a fortune, for your sake!" she said with a sigh.
"Be glad for my sake that you have none," I answered.

"You cannot imagine the miserable complications and perplexities which arise in this world from the possession of money.

No slave so tightly bound as the man who has what people call 'a stake in the country' and a balance at his banker's.

The true monarch of all he surveys is the penniless reprobate who walks down Fleet-street with his whole estate covered by the seedy hat upon his head." Having thus moralized, I proceeded to ask Miss Halliday if she was prepared to accept a humbler station than that enjoyed by her at the Lawn.
"No useful landau, to be an open carriage at noon and a family coach at night," I said; "no nimble page to skip hither and thither at his fair lady's commands, if not belated on the way by the excitement of tossing halfpence with youthful adventurers of the byways and alleys; no trim parlour-maids, with irreproachable caps, dressed for the day at 11 o'clock A.M .-- but instead of these, a humble six-roomed bandbox of a house, and one poor hardworking slavey, with perennial smudges from saucepan-lids upon her honest pug-nose.

Consider the prospect seriously, Charlotte, and ask yourself whether you can endure such a descent in the social scale." My Charlotte laughed, as if the prospect had been the most delightful picture ever presented to mortal vision.
"Do you think I care for the landau or the page ?" she cried.