"A very timely reservation. And you are referred?"
"Yes, Mr. Monson, those cheering words have solaced my ears—I am referred. The old chap," aside, "likes a little humbug, as well as a girl."
"And you will take her without a cent, you say?"
"Did I, sir? I believe I didn't exactly say that—DOLLAR was the word I mentioned. CENTS could hardly be named between you and me."
"Dollar let it be, then. Now, sir, you have my consent on a single condition."
"Name it, sir. Name five or six, at once, my dear Mr. Monson, and you shall see how I will comply."
"One will answer. How much fortune do you think will be necessary to make such a couple happy, at starting in the world? Name such a sum as will comport with your own ideas."
"How much, sir? Mr. Monson, you are a model of generosity! You mean, to keep a liberal and gentlemanly establishment, as would become your son-in-law?"
"I do—such a fortune as will make you both easy and comfortable."
"Horses and carriages, of course? Every thing on a genteel and liberal scale?"