He could only trust to his good fortune to carry him safe over.

'I don't suppose you would want it,' he said, 'but I might.' 'You would want me, but you would not want me for always.

I should be a burden less easy to shake off than Dick Shand.' 'Is that the way a man is always to look at a woman ?' 'It is the way in which they do, I think.

I often wonder that any man is ever fool enough to marry.

A poor man may want some one to serve him, and may be able to get service in no other way; or a man, poor in another way, may find an heiress convenient;--but otherwise I think men only marry when they are caught.