You can see that." "I am sure whatever you did was right, Ferdinand." "He is indisputably a rich man,--one who might be supposed to be able and willing to give an only daughter a considerable fortune.

Now I certainly had never thought of marrying for money." Here she rubbed her face upon his arm.

"I felt that it was not for me to speak of money.

If he chose to be reticent, I could be so equally.

Had he asked me, I should have told him that I had no fortune, but was making a large though precarious income.