What more natural than that you two should make a match of it?
Charlotte is her own mistress, and hasn't sixpence in the world that any one but you and I know of; for, of course, my brother Phil will continue to stick to every penny of poor old Tom's money.

All you have to do is to follow up the young lady; it's the course that would suggest itself to any man in the same case, even if Miss Halliday were the ugliest old harridan in Christendom, instead of being a very jolly kind of girl, as girls go." My employer said this with the tone of a man who had never considered the genus girl a very interesting part of creation.

I suppose I looked at him rather indignantly; for he laughed as he resumed,-- "I'll say she's an angel, if you like," he said; "and if you think her one, so much the better.

You may consider it a very lucky thing that you came in my way, and a still more lucky thing that Miss Halliday has been silly enough to fall in love with you.

I've heard of men being born with silver spoons in their mouths; but I should think you must have come into the world with a whole service of plate.