This is a most serious step,--one for which, in my opinion, there is not the slightest necessity; and, as you have done me the honour of asking my advice, I must implore you to do nothing without the approval of your friends.
A man is never the best judge of his own position." "A man is the best judge of what he feels himself.

I'd sooner beg my bread till my death than read such another article as those two that have appeared, and feel, as I do, that the writer has truth on his side." "Have you not a daughter, Mr Harding--an unmarried daughter ?" "I have," said he, now standing also, but still playing away on his fiddle with his hand behind his back.

"I have, Sir Abraham; and she and I are completely agreed on this subject." "Pray excuse me, Mr Harding, if what I say seems impertinent; but surely it is you that should be prudent on her behalf.

She is young, and does not know the meaning of living on an income of a hundred and sixty pounds a year.

On her account give up this idea.