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How eager Lady Carbury was that her son should at once go in form to Marie's father and make his propositionover his bedside a little before noon, 'pray don't put it off; you don't kno many slips there et hi lady will feel that she is ill-used'

'There's no fear of that; she's all right What am I to say to him aboutanything, Felix'

'Nidderdale, when he was on before, stipulated for a certain sum down; or his father did for him So much cash was to be paid over before the ceremony, and it only went off because Nidderdale wanted theit settled?'

'No;--I'd consent to that on condition that the money was paid down, and the income insured to me,--say £7,000 or £8,000 a year I wouldn't do it for less,left of your own'

'I've got a throat that I can cut, and brains that I can blow out,' said the son, using an arguht be efficacious with his ht have been sure that no man lived less likely to cut his own throat or blow out his own brains

'Oh, Felix! how brutal it is to speak to me in that way'

'It may be brutal; but you know, irl because of her money'

'You want to marry her yourself'

'I'm quite a philosopher about it I want her money; and when one wants money, one should make up one's mind how much or how little one et it'

'I don't think there can be any doubt'

'If I were to marry her, and if themy throat then, ain and perhaps win; but when a fellow goes in for an heiress, and gets the ithout the money, he feels a little hampered you know'

'Of course he'd pay the ht; but it would be rather aard to refuse to go into church after everything had been arranged because the money hadn't been paid over He's so clever, that he'd contrive that a man shouldn't knohether the money had been paid or not You can't carry £10,000 a year about in your pocket, you know If you'll go,up'