'No, nor me neither,' said Miss Galton. 'Such haughtiness indeed!—yet I was glad he mortified that puppy Elkerton.'
Emmeline, who found the two friends disposed to indulge their good nature at the expence of the company of the evening, complained of being fatigued, and asked for a glass of wine and water: which having drank, she retired to bed, leaving the lady of the house, who had invited Mr. Hanbury and his friend to supper, to enjoy more stories of Jonathan Huggins, and the pretty satyrical efforts of Miss Galton, who made her court most effectually by ridiculing and villifying all their acquaintance whenever it was in her power.
[CHAPTER XIV]
When Rochely got home, he set about examining the state of his heart exactly as he would have examined the check book of one of his customers.
He found himself most miserably in love. But avarice said, Miss Mowbray had no fortune.
By what had passed in his bosom that evening, he had discovered that he should be wretched to see her married to another.
But avarice enquired how he could offer to marry a woman without a shilling?
Love, represented that her modest, reserved, and unambitious turn, would perhaps make her, in the end, a more profitable match than a woman educated in expence, who might dissipate more than she brought.