He certainly did not wish to marry into the family;--and yet they had all been so kind to him! 'I should have nothing to marry on, aunt Polly,' he said.
Then he was reminded that he was his father's heir, and that his father's house was sadly in want of a mistress.

They could live at Babington till Folking should be ready.

The prospect was awful! What is a young man to say in such a position?
'I do not love the young lady after that fashion, and therefore I must decline.' It requires a hero, and a cold-blooded hero, to do that.

And aunt Polly was very much in earnest, for she brought Julia into the room, and absolutely delivered her up into the young man's arms.
'I am so much in debt,' he said, 'that I don't care to think of it.' Aunt Polly declared that such debts did not signify in the least.
Folking was not embarrassed.

Folking did not owe a shilling.