The rainy day was certain to come some time or other to her, and she would have liked to have made provision for it--a difficult matter for most of us, and for her impossible.

She was wise enough, even then, to know how Uncle Hardcastle would have received any suggestion of a prudential nature, and she held her tongue.
In Leonard Yorke, if she did not comprehend his doctrine of "perpetual subsistence," she perceived a provision for her future.

At one-and-twenty, indeed, he made his pupil his wife, to the astonishment rather than the scandal of the neighborhood.

They opined that it was only in the East, or in royal families who wedded by proxy, that brides ran so young.

Jane Hardcastle, however, was in reality eighteen years of age.
Yorke Brothers, of Birmingham, had nothing to say against the match, but they objected to a Swedenborgian partner in the iron trade, and bought their nephew at a fair price out of the business.