“Not she—the mother. Well, I’m not going to stand it. My dear fellow, we are being cut out.”
“Nonsense, my dear boy; those two are old enough to be their grandfathers.”
“But they are rich—at least, Elbraham is rolling in wealth.”
“Then Lord Henry was getting the Jew to do a bill.”
“You seem as if nothing would move you, Glen; I tell you I am sure they have been to propose to those girls.”
“And if they had, what then?”
“I should go mad.”
“Nonsense! you’d go and fall in love with someone else.”
“I? with another!” cried the little fellow tragically. “I tell you I never knew what it was to love till now I can’t bear it, Glen; pray get up, and come and see.”
“Nonsense, man, nonsense! We couldn’t call. Wait till to-morrow, and we shall meet them in the grounds.”