"Not at all, sir; you have been more than generous. You have been showing me the rose-color from your point of view. Now it is not all rose-color."
"I was coming to that; it is by no means all rose-color. Well, say your say first."
"You are a very rich man, and you are giving me your daughter; so endowing her, that any man in the world would say I had drawn a prize in money, if in nothing else."
Mr. Harman smiled.
"I fear you must bear that," he said. "I do not see that you can support Charlotte without some assistance from me."
"I certainly could not do so. I have exactly two hundred a year, and that, as you were pleased to observed before, would be, to one brought up as Charlotte has been, little short of beggary."
"To Charlotte it certainly would be almost beggary."
"Mr. Harman, I have some pride in me. I am a barrister by profession. Some barristers get high in their profession."
"Undoubtedly some do."
"Those who are brilliant do," continued Hinton. "I have abilities, whether they are brilliant or not, time will show. Mr. Harman, I should like to bring you news of that brief before we are married."