Can't you do it now?
Oh, the rising generation! Oh, the progress we are making in these enlightened modern times! There! there! you can marry Blanche, and make her happy, and increase the population--and all without knowing how to write the English language.

One can only say with the learned Bevorskius, looking out of his window at the illimitable loves of the sparrows, 'How merciful is Heaven to its creatures!' Take up the pen.
I'll dictate! I'll dictate!" Sir Patrick read the letter over, approved of it, and saw it safe in the box for the post.

This done, he peremptorily forbade Arnold to speak to his niece on the subject of the marriage without his express permission.
"There's somebody else's consent to be got," he said, "besides Blanche's consent and mine." "Lady Lundie ?" "Lady Lundie.

Strictly speaking, I am the only authority.

But my sister-in-law is Blanche's step-mother, and she is appointed guardian in the event of my death.