'I don't like those roses, cousin,' said Netta hastily, 'they are unlucky I think,' and she tore them from her hair, and threw them, as she had done the previous ones, into the brook. 'Now let us see where they will go.'
'We have not time, Netta, and I do not know why I am fooling away the hours. You must answer all my questions truly and plainly. I am become a rich man, how rich I do not myself know; and I mean to let every one belonging to me see that I can spend my money like a gentleman, and be as grand as those who have hitherto lorded it over me.'
'Particularly the Rice Rices and Lady Mary Nugent,' interrupted Netta.
'Would you like to be grander than they, Netta? have a finer carriage, more beautiful clothes, a handsomer house, plate, jewels, servants, and all sorts of magnificence?'
'Oh, yes, of all things in the world.'
'Then you shall be my wife, Netta, and we will soon see whether we cannot be as grand as the grandest.'
'Oh, cousin!'
'Well, dear Netta; tell me, are you changed?'
'No, cousin.'
'If I ask your father's consent, and he gives it, will you marry me?'