The sooner it is done the better, Mr.Osborne; them's my sentiments," the wag said; though, when Osborne had left the bank parlour, Mr.Bullock remembered Amelia, and what a pretty girl she was, and how attached to George Osborne; and he gave up at least ten seconds of his valuable time to regretting the misfortune which had befallen that unlucky young woman.
While thus George Osborne's good feelings, and his good friend and genius, Dobbin, were carrying back the truant to Amelia's feet, George's parent and sisters were arranging this splendid match for him, which they never dreamed he would resist.
When the elder Osborne gave what he called "a hint," there was no possibility for the most obtuse to mistake his meaning.

He called kicking a footman downstairs a hint to the latter to leave his service.
With his usual frankness and delicacy he told Mrs.Haggistoun that he would give her a cheque for five thousand pounds on the day his son was married to her ward; and called that proposal a hint, and considered it a very dexterous piece of diplomacy.

He gave George finally such another hint regarding the heiress; and ordered him to marry her out of hand, as he would have ordered his butler to draw a cork, or his clerk to write a letter.
This imperative hint disturbed George a good deal.

He was in the very first enthusiasm and delight of his second courtship of Amelia, which was inexpressibly sweet to him.

The contrast of her manners and appearance with those of the heiress, made the idea of a union with the latter appear doubly ludicrous and odious.