“By-the-by, that Corny is a strange character. I rather think, if I were you, I should have let him go with the property.”
“Let him go! Egad, that's not so easy as you think. Nothing but death will ever part us.”
“I really cannot comprehend how you endure him; he'd drive me mad.”
“Well, he very often pushes me a little hard or so; and, if it wasn't that, by deep study and minute attention, I have at length got some insight into the weak parts of his nature, I frankly confess I couldn't endure it much longer.”
“And, pray, what may these amiable traits be?”
“You will scarcely guess”
“Love of money, perhaps?”
“No.”
“Attachment to your family, then?”
“Not that either.”