'Remember my guardians.

You will not easily obtain my aunt's consent.

Don't you see she is prejudiced against you ?' 'I do, dearest; and you must tell me why, that I may best know how to combat her objections.

I suppose she thinks I am a prodigal,' pursued he, observing that I was unwilling to reply, 'and concludes that I shall have but little worldly goods wherewith to endow my better half?
If so, you must tell her that my property is mostly entailed, and I cannot get rid of it.

There may be a few mortgages on the rest--a few trifling debts and incumbrances here and there, but nothing to speak of; and though I acknowledge I am not so rich as I might be--or have been--still, I think, we could manage pretty comfortably on what's left.