"Then where shall we all be ?" "Where shall you be if I don't provide for you?
You won't have anything to do with the bank, and you won't have me to take care of.

You say you've so many interests; but I can't make them out." Ralph leaned back in his chair with folded arms; his eyes were fixed for some time in meditation.

At last, with the air of a man fairly mustering courage, "I take a great interest in my cousin," he said, "but not the sort of interest you desire.

I shall not live many years; but I hope I shall live long enough to see what she does with herself.

She's entirely independent of me; I can exercise very little influence upon her life.
But I should like to do something for her." "What should you like to do ?" "I should like to put a little wind in her sails." "What do you mean by that ?" "I should like to put it into her power to do some of the things she wants.